1966 22-2 Diver Rebuild

[OldSkool67]

Looks great, love the way you are going about your stringers. Everything looks great. Im hoping to have some more time soon to go back and read all the back post on your build.

[RickK]

Any progress Carl?  Warming up there yet?

[Callyb]

Been on the road for work. Haven't done much besides the stringers, I'll get some pics up shortly.

[Callyb]

Well, I never did get around to uploading pics, but I wanted to give this thread a bump so I thought I would give a quick update. I haven't worked on the boat in quite some time, mostly due to traveling for work. Now my kiddos are home for summer break and I don't like push them into work that they dont want to do. So, I dont know how much I will get done before the middle of August.

Other than that, I was lucky enough to get the porta-bracket that was in the classified section. It is scheduled to be here on Friday. Hopefully I will get around to post some pics then.

Other than that, I'll be lurking and watching your posts!

[kaptainkoz]

Good to "see" you buddy. Enjoy the summer and them kiddies.

[Callyb]

My Porta-Bracket showed up yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would post pics, but I am an idiot and managed to delete all of my folders, so I will wait to see if a restore can be done on the gallery. That means no point in adding pics as they will be wiped out... :eye:

Having said that, I wanted give a public Thank You to Mr. & Mrs. WannabeDeepSea.  They were awesome to deal with on the purchase, very honest and just plain old good people. They really embody the spirit of this site, and I would not hesitate to buy any of the other items they have if I needed them. I wish you guys the best with getting the rest sold off!

[RickK]

Hey Cally, did you get a chance to try the gallery on the new site?

[Callyb]

Well, for those of you that remember I had a rebuild goning at some point, LOL! I have regained my motivation to get back on the project and after removing a lot of random stuff out of the boat and a good cleaning I got started again.

Since I managed to wipe out all of my pictures  I will work on getting them all uploaded again. However, as a quick refresher I boat a boat that the P.O. installed a transducer on, didn't seal it and as a consequence waterlogged the foam, kept the stringers wet  (which mostly disbonded from the hull), and had a very soft transom. As time permits I will backfill the pictures, but for now here is the quick version...

A good (bad) boat.


Sole removed


New stringer foam going in (male mold/lost mold)






Pretty much where I am at right now. The fairing was because I got a little crazy with my sure-form... Oops.


I have a little more I want to do and I'll be laying glass. The foam is 4lbs foam, and I plan on going with 3 layers of 1708 on the two stringers. Then I will be adding bulkeads which will also be covered with three layers of 1708. Should be pretty stout, but not massive overkill.

Tlak to you later.

[RickK]

I didn't go back and re-read this thread yet but will, did you decide on how you're going to do the diver door?

[CLM65]

Welcome back Carl!  We missed you, man!

[Callyb]

Thanks Craig! I am glad to be back.

Rick, the door itself will remain stock/original. The open/lock/latch mechanism is going to get an upgrade though. I have it worked out in my head but I haven't put it to paper yet. Please standby on that one.

[Callyb]

No new pics, but one of my indecisions let to a decision... After reading reviews online and hearing a first hand account from a friend, I have decided to go with EMC paints and placed an order with Shine (Gufstream Composites) today. As expected, the transaction was smooth..... I am really looking forward to using this paint. The DOI is suppose to be amazing and it is repairable. I can't even express my excitement at using this product....

*EDIT* I had originally posted this from my phone and it autocorrected some words that I didn't catch. 

[RickK]

I'll be watching.  I'm still on the fence as to what to use as a top coat.

[Callyb]

Rick, I will be spraying everything, but the majority of the reviews/posts I have seen the paint was applied by roller application. Apparently no tipping is needed because of the leveling ability of this paint. Also, I had the head painter at work take a look at the Spec sheet from EMC for the Quantum 99 and he said that it looks very similar to Jet Glo, which is what we used to use on out airplanes before we switched to a cheaper paint.

As a side note... I am going with cream (Joel said it is very close to Awlgrip's cream color) on everything. I was originally thinking I would do the sides a different color, but as a wise man once said, "boats are supposed to be white".

One other quick side note... Yesterday was the first time I had talked to Joel on the phone and I wanted to let everyone know that he is one hell of a nice guy! Very personable and very willing to help in any way that he can. I can tell you that he made a lifelong customer out of me after talking with him.

[CLM65]

I was originally thinking I would do the sides a different color, but as a wise man once said, "boats are supposed to be white".

Can't go wrong with white.  But I'm still on the fence on this.  White always looks good, but a color can set it apart from the masses.  I'm torn between white and seafoam green.  May come down to a flip of a coin.