Classic AquaSport
Aquasport Model Rebuilds, Mods, Updates and Refreshes => Other Classic Rebuilds => Topic started by: dirtwheelsfl on November 18, 2012, 02:50:48 PM
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1986 26' Intrepid. Current project im doing for a friend of mine. Working our way up to a full paint job, but first need to address some rotted wood core issues and some delam. Also building and in deck livewell and some other small parts. New coffin cover as well..
LOTS of room in this thing
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removing rotted wood core due to poor sealing. front portions had tower legs bolted to it. culprit in the stern was a rod holder
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replaced with corecell scraps bedded in epoxy. ran out so just used some pvc board in the stern
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any gaps filled with thickened epoxy and glassed over while hard but still tacky.
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some might replace from the bottom, which would be ideal... if it was upside down. ill work WITH gravity and just fair it in. could also have used old skin and taped the edges back together, but i feel better with a full lamination with such small surface to bond into the original laminate. plus i charge hourly :)
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The foam core here was all delaminated from the top skin by water intrusion through a grab handle (4 thru bolts). ground down to good core and filled/glassed.
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pattern for glass
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no idea how this happened, but skin and core was crushed. need to finish this first so i can get the new coffin cover on, and stop almost falling into the hole. wasted space in front of the tank bulkhead will be painted and will have an access from inside the console for storage.
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couple leaning post changes apparently
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all holes here drilled out and thickened epoxy injected. bad wood was localized to just a couple very bottom transducer holes. all get beveled and glassed. been told the boat originally had twins, but i think someone just changed the side the rigging came through when repowered with the e-tec, because i cannot find any evidence of a twin bracket.
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im not sure why intrepid back then was vacuum bagging and foam-coring most things and then wood coring other things and not using some type of synthetic? :scratch:
Fairing starts monday!
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Thanks for the tutorial - always appreciate this.
I see you use wax paper - why?
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Here i was using it as tracing paper for making patterns for glass to be cut. Use it for a cheap peel ply sometimes too...
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You could put my 170 in the aft of that thing and still have room - huge. Lots of fishing room.
Trace paper makes sense since you can see through it.
Nice big carport to work under also - boy I could have used that yesterday as I was cutting out the floor of my 170.
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Yea i love this thing! Wish it was here when i was doing the flattie. My grandma has it behind her house which is nextdoor. My air hose is just long enough to reach everything. Wheres the pics of your demo?!
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Gotta love grandma :cheers:
I have been taking pics as I go and will save them for a rebuild post. Yours is the topic here and I may pick your brain on layups and such as you go (and as i go).
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How goes the rebuild , any pics of the finished product :salut: Like the idea of wax paper for patterns, will borrow that in the future :thumright:
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Got a bunch of pics, none too exciting though. Found more rot in the cap on the bow and console, so just fillling, glassing, fairing etc. Built a one-off livewell to drop in the deck as well. Convinced owners to paint it white too haha!
Will update when it actually looks like somethings been done (primer etc)
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More rotten wood! This is why ANY penetration i put into wood is overdrilled and filled with epoxy.
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control box mount
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Lots of holes popping up when sanding started. beveled, glassed and faired..
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checking fairness...
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Built a livewell to drop in the deck here. The hull bottom will be the main support for it, then the flange on it will be thrubolted to the deck hatch flange. Transducer in the bottom really dictated the size and location of it, then built the rear flange/hatch divider and glassed to the deck. Then had to cut the front hatch down and add an inch and a half or so to the rear hatch. Goal was to make it factory looking :wink: Hatches were also delaminating on the edges, so the core got cut back a few inches and reglassed the edgesof the core to the outside skin.
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Primed up.. Going from cap to console to interior, all in primer first then finish paint. Then onto the hull, which is going to white...
Another thing i did was take a fairing board to the bottom lip/edge of the cap. Youd think a boat of this caliber (price) would have nice straight trimming done there but no, it was pretty wavy. I can see some sloppiness under the rubrail but on the inside? not gonna fly. No one will ever probably notice, but i made sure the owner knows it.
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heavy repair areas..
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Beautiful work.
That high-build primer is the deal.
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Nice work Chris :salut:
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I cant stand sloppy cuts! I wouldnt have let her out the door...
This is the bottom edge of the top half of the 2 piece console
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lip under the seat in the front of the console
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Quality delivered :thumright:
"When the thrill of cheap is long forgotten...quality still remains."
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Moving along! Slated to be sprayed in 3 weeks at a friends indoor shop. Motor and bracket will come off there too. Noway that ugly black thing is going back on here without being refinished!
All gray 545. Went thru a clear, a red, and a layer of primer down to original red gel then 545'd.
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This is where the livewell will drop in. Laid that divider/flange/lip up with pvc board sandwiching 1708, and tabbed full across into the deck.
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Factory radii matched
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Quite a bit of time in modifying these bilge/livewell hatches, but still way ahead of making new ones. Thru-hull ducer dictated where to put the live well, which dictated how big the hatches needed to be. Had to take some off of one and add to the other.
Both had full core out to the very ends, (2nd pic) which was delaminating.
Cut the core back on each to 1) fix delamination and 2) make clearance for the livewell hatch to sit flush. Then had to build up the radiused corners on em.
Livewell hatch
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Bilge (rear) hatch lengthened and first round of fairing
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Trim tabs put up a fight. Luckily bad core was localized to a few holes. Bored out all bad wood and injected epoxy (double the screw diameter) ground bad glass and covered with 2 layers 1708.
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Very nice work Chris :salut:
I'm a little confused on the hatches over the livewell. I see, I think, that the livewell will drop into the front access hole? There is no lip on the aft side of that divider, will you add something there - some way to support the hatch in the front?
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Right, just a lip for the livewell to set in. Originally the 2 hatches were just butted together and hinged on each other. Theyre so strong now its just not needed. Would be a sharp bone bruiser if it was there too haha. Dont ask me how i know....
They arent that "dry" but anything that gets in the well will drain out via transom and bilge pump will take care of the rest.
The deck drains are pure crap design wise if you plan on getting any amount of fish on the deck (or leaves for that matter). Theres little pockets around each hatch with holes that drain to a piece of pvc glassed the length of the undeside then out the transom scuppers. Always clogged!
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:lol:
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The bracket is aluminum correct, just painted black?
Hull is a beautiful shape.
Good luck.
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Yup, made by "B-Bracket". Gonna get blasted and redone in white to match. Owner is a welder and hes gonna make some swim platforms out of bent tubing to go on either side of it. Something like a D-shape.
Can definitely see some Formula 233 in her. Reverse chine is all intrepid though. Ride like cadillacs!
An '89 23' (246) pulled in the driveway today as well. Needs a new fuel tank and some cracked cap/gunnel work...
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You're getting a sweet job, pretty work :thumright:
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Getting this one up to speed. Still needs the hull painted (red :puker: ) and nonskid on the deck...
When the bracket came off, it was all blisters in the outside layers of mat, so that all got ground out to good structural stuff and laid back up. Bracket bolt holes all got overdrilled and epoxy injected as well.
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Had some cracks in the cap to fix too
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Topside all painted and taping for nonskid
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Guys wanted Kiwigrip for nonskid. 50/50 mix of gray and white. Id have proly done straight gray..
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beautiful work. what color for the hull?
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"Toreador red" I believe. Awlcraft 2000
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ew. should have talked to you about my boat a month ago anyway.
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Dont like the blue?
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Looks fantastic dirtwheelsfl, like the detail work with the tape for the nonskid, looks better than factory :cheers:
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the blue was ok in pics but it was a really crappy job. previous owner did it. lots or orange peel from rolling and not tipping. starting to peel in places. bubbled right off if it even smelled acetone. have a local guy redo the paint inside and out with awlgrip, replacing the transom and raising 5", a little floor work and some other stuff. his work is good from what ive seen (friends have had work done by him) and the price is good but its taking forever. which i knew to expect. but he is just doing a few things that are annoying me. he is going to correct it though. i hope he pays attention to detail like you did taping stuff off. that intrepid really looks great. and that hull is almost timeless. just wish it wasnt going to be red lol.
im doing snow white from rub rail up, stars and stripes blue hull down to the chine. bottom is staying black cause i ran out of money. not bottom paint though. just black paint. told him to surprise me with non skid color cause im horrible at knowing what will look right.
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Good work definitely takes time. Especially outside in this weather! I get the slow moniker too. I can only grind glass for so long. As long as ive got something left to cure overnight then its been a productive day haha. It takes my 2 hands 8 hours to do something or it takes 8 hands 2 hours is always my response. :wink:
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true. i told him i didnt care if it took 2 more months. just do it right, make it look nice and keep it dry. as long as i see some kind of progress its fine. be he will go 5-6 days in between touching it. i know he is busy so im not bitching at him. but what i was told would be 2-3 weeks and is working on week #6 now and not even half way there.
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I think boat builders are like auto body shops. NEVER tell them to take their time... if you do you can triple or quadruple the amount of time it will take to get it back. I had a buddy of mine that had a small body shop next to my workshop. I'd be in my shop working and I'd overhear him talking to a customer... "oh it will only take a few days... I'll get right on it and get it back to you" I'd be in my shop trying not to burst out laughing... knowing there was no way in heck that was going to happen... I saw him give that line to several customers.... only to see the car take WEEKS to get done... He would see me and smirk.... after the customer left I would bust out laughing.... he'd be like "what?" to which I would reply "that poor SOB isn't going to see his car for a month you lying rat!" Too bad he passed away from a brain tumor... he was a funny guy.
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Good stuff Bruce :lol:
Only took my guy three years :lol:
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I was taught to say "two weeks" when people ask when somethings gonna be done :mrgreen: 2 months or 2 years my answer is still 2 weeks haha
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About to start on another one of these old gals and remembered about this one! Its been done for a lil while now...
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:drool: :whistle: SWEET - came out beautiful Chris :adore01:
Like the swim platforms the owner made and that he went with the red on the bracket too. Looks brand new.
So you have another of these boats or something else coming in?
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:drool: :whistle: SWEET - came out beautiful Chris :adore01:
Like the swim platforms the owner made and that he went with the red on the bracket too. Looks brand new.
So you have another of these boats or something else coming in?
Funny ya say that, one of the owners is a welder and actually made those. Im brainstorming one for my rig too...
Yea got an 89 23fter on blocks right now. I think they called it a 246 with the integrated bracket. Little better shape too!
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I'm sure we'll enjoy the redo of that one also. Look forward to it.