RickK's 170 rebuild

[dburr]

Is the fuel vent going to be forward too and if so how are you going to keep water out? (think I missed that, Riddelin ain't workin  ).  Damn near a dead fit on the liner, that must make the afternoon tea taste mighty good at this point   !!

[RickK]

Hi Dave,
The fill I bought has a vent inside it.  So yes, both of those hoses you see up front are going to the fill.  The fill came with an additional "washer like thing" to elevate the fill above the hull cap a 1/4" to keep water from getting in and going down the vent tube.  Sucker takes a weird size hole saw though - 2 1/16".  I just ordered one. I think I have more sizes of hole saws than HD now     I could cut it out with a jig saw but I like the clean hole the saw gives you.
Just dug out the casting deck and hauled it up on saw horses.  The backing wood still looks good but the overall piece is going to need a good grinding  :twisted:   I also need to grind the bottom edge of the liner where it meets the sole - that ain't going to be any fun inside the boat.
One day at a time.  It's beer thirty now.  

[dburr]

Got it Rick! I just had this image of you out there having an "Old Man and The Sea" moment, playing in a pass with 8 footers and digging every second of it until the OOPPS!  that only teenagers have (yeah right     ) as green water comes over the bow, then the old dude comes back to the surface thinking sonnnooffaabiscuit how much water'd I just push in the tank...      None of us have been there ..

Beer thirty.. A sad day when the BIG can is empty.. A note to the boys, ANYTIME you get a chance to try a Schwartzbier, DO IT!!    

[fishinonthebrain]

Looking good Rick it's starting to look like a boat again.

[RickK]

Got it Rick! I just had this image of you out there having an "Old Man and The Sea" moment, playing in a pass with 8 footers and digging every second of it until the OOPPS!  that only teenagers have (yeah right     ) as green water comes over the bow, then the old dude comes back to the surface thinking sonnnooffaabiscuit how much water'd I just push in the tank...      None of us have been there ..

Beer thirty.. A sad day when the BIG can is empty.. A note to the boys, ANYTIME you get a chance to try a Schwartzbier, DO IT!!    

Doesn't mean that I won't have that Senior Moment but I usually don't go out through a pass that has some 4ftrs let alone 8 ftrs, in my 170.  I did do a U-ey one time when I did start to go through the Venice Jetties when the perfect storm of wind and tide stacked up the waves in the pass to like 4 ft.  That was tricky to do a U-ey in between the waves and take off again before the next wave filled the back of the boat up.

If I'd been in my 230 I would have gone through it.

Thanks Fishon - it is coming along.  Have a bit to do before I can stick it down though.  After I glass it in I need to take out the rod holders and get everything ready for gelcoat.

[RickK]

Got some grinding done yesterday

[RickK]

Started working on the casting deck.  Here I have it upside sown on the saw horses and have cleaned up the front.


Here is the storage area hatch


The coring came out in one piece and the original coring was 1/4" plywood.  I had added a top layer of 1/2" some years back to help stiffen it.

[RickK]

The hatch needs a good grinding.

[RickK]

On the underside of the casting deck the coring seems to be ok but I cut out the coring in the area around the screw holes where the hatch lid mounted.  I'll glue in some coosa in the two areas.

[h20ryder]

Nice work  
Are you going to recore the hatch with wood again or go composite?

[RickK]

Thanks.
Recore will be composite - I have a few large chunks of Plascore left so I think I'll go with that.  I'd really like to recore the casting deck to lighten it up but the coring seems fine.

[fishinonthebrain]

Rick you better get all that nasty cutting and grinding out of the way before it gets hot down there in flor-Ida. I give it another 3-4 weeks and it will be in the 90's here. Ugh!

Looking good though.

[RickK]

I weighed the cloth and got a good idea of what I needed for the lid and added some weight for wetting the plascore scrim and other things I needed to lam.


Got it lam'd up

[RickK]

How'd you like that actual math - old style without a phone or calculator  
Anyway, this should be big improvement over the last lam.

[Callyb]

How'd you like that actual math - old style without a phone or calculator   

Is that how you do that?

I have forgotten how to do math without a phone or calculator :!: :!: :!:  

Looks great Rick.