Can you separate the liners of the boat?

[Kaczki]

Jim, do you know how the floor is glassed in?  I know you have some literature on how Aquasports were built and I wonder you have something that talks about how the floor is glassed in.  If there is little glass holding the liner down it should come out with very little trouble.  If there is a lot of glass, well,  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:.

[JimCt]

The floor, or deck (let's keep the terms correct here), rests on the hull stringers.  On my 240 the factory dribbled a little high density foam on top of the stringers for bedding and lowered the liner down onto the stringers.  You can see the remnants of the foam on the stringer...



When I cut away the deck it was not bonded to the foam at all; the foam just acted as a support.  You should have no problem lifting your liner off.  Only place the liner & hull are "stuck" together is at the transom.  There you'll have to grind off the epoxy putty on the outside of the transom just below the cap.  The transom cap is part of the liner.  On older boats which still have their original transoms you'll most likely see a slight crack at this joint area.  If the boat is still "factory" you can pull her apart in the reverse order she was built.

[anclotelife]

I to was wondering how to attach the cap back to the hull. I asked some glass guys in the area here, if I could just glass it together and not screw it together and they said yes but it is a lot of sanding and fairing to get it staright again. So in that Im under the impression just screw it back together and be done with it.

[JimCt]

Be easier on the next re-build in 20 or 30 years if you use the screws.

[sandbarbilly]

When you all talk about the liner I wondered about the deck cover (floor) of the boat. After numerous small repairs on my deck liner I've come to relize that it is just a liner. Doesn't seem to be bonded to the wood deck underneath. I could be wrong and the water soaked wood may have released from the fiberglass, but I don't think so. Boring a few holes in my transom for transducer cables I notice the transom liner is floating away from the wood transom core lower on the transom, which makes me think this is not bonded either. I don't think you will get the transom liner out clean. Some serious chopping is probably required to get it out, which means more repairs when reinstalling.