1970 Aquasport 222 FB rebuild

[HawgLeg]

DW,

Cmon man Allman Bros and Otis Redding were from Macon, GA haha. Yea I may NEED to do a fishing trip to Sarasota and pick some up on the way back

[dirtwheelsfl]

And on the drain thing...    The bilge on mine is so flat, it always has a bit of water in it.  With the stringer and transom tabbing there it just creates a small valley right in the middle, not enough to bother me though, maybe 1/2" deep in the middle...

[dirtwheelsfl]

DW,

Cmon man Allman Bros and Otis Redding were from Macon, GA haha. Yea I may NEED to do a fishing trip to Sarasota and pick some up on the way back

Used to visit my grandpas place in Americus when I was a kid.  Pretty close it looked like!

[RickK]

I drew up a sketch of what I was trying to explain, exported it to send it home and forgot to send it home - go figure.  So I'll post it tomorrow.

[Capt. Bob]

Probably left it next to your glasses.

[RickK]

Exactly where I found them.
Hope these help:




If not at least it will stir some scrutiny.

[HawgLeg]

Thanks Rick. Hope my supplies come from Pro Marine today so I can do something. I'm still not 100% satisfied my dam is going to do what I want. It looks good all around the lip except the top say 6" where there is a gap between the edge of the lip(which is beveled) and the dam. Gonna make for a pretty wonky skin I would think. Maybe a few more screws

Yesterday I was checking out my guwhale cap and I don't think its gonna require too much work before I can slap er back on. Corning looks like crap but the glass still looks pretty good. Also trying to figure out what to do with my casting deck. It has a hull liner attached from casting deck all the way to the transom. How was it removed so clean? Was it just screwed with the cap at the top and tabbed to the sole at the bottom? No glue in between liner and hull. Seems like that would make a bunch of noise. If i reuse the old liner, the height will have to be adjusted for raising the deck and it will need a lot of repair. Thinking I should cut the liner off at the casting deck. I'm going to build up the hull anyway. Will post pics of cap and deck/liner this evening to better explain.

[RickK]

I'm still not 100% satisfied my dam is going to do what I want. It looks good all around the lip except the top say 6" where there is a gap between the edge of the lip(which is beveled) and the dam. Gonna make for a pretty wonky skin I would think. Maybe a few more screws
Will post pics of cap and deck/liner this evening to better explain.

Is the lip pushing out the dam?  If so, maybe you need to cut that part of the lip away and pull the dam in tight.  Now is your chance to make the transom nice and flat.

[flatbackpaul]

I had planned to reuse the deck and liner that's why I removed it so carefully and was bale to get it off in one piece.  The cap was screwed every 4 inches and glued around the edge and glassed into the floor.  It wasn't noisy at all. 

My plan was to raise the floor an inch or two and cut a corresponding dimension off the bottom of the liner and deck so it would fit back in.  I liked to shape and size of the original casting deck. 

Best of luck,

Paul

[HawgLeg]

Heres the gap that I was talking about. I just needed more screws closer to the edge and it pulled it in nice n tight.




Dad and I are still in the process of liquidating crap from our shop so my work space is rather tight in here.




Layed fillets in the corners and a little bit around the seam of the lip and formica. I waited until about 9PM and It was raining so temp in the shop were probably 80deg. With the humidity added it took almost 45 min for my fillets to start to get right.
 

My dam is really too high but heck we made it work. Gonna be a fine table when it comes off the transom. Instead of being able to clip my layers in place we just draped them over the back in order of layup. With two sets of hands it wasn't that big of a deal to get each layer in place and not create a lot of bubbles. Got all of those out with two bubble rollers working simultaneously and a chip brush for the pesky bubbles.






Rick, I'm gonna drill the hole back out and lay in the PVC soon.




I feel really good about it. It looks like I did something!!

[RickK]

Looks like you did a great job
Now you have something nice and flat to start from and everything will be easier to work on.
 

[HawgLeg]

Got the two core halves cut, fitted and laminated last night. By time I finished, the Perseid meteor shower was full on and it was a perfect moonless night for it.





Made one mistake here and it was because I didn't label properly. I wetted out the wrong side of my inner pice of ply...damnit man
Wasted some resin but oh well. Carefully slid/pulled it off and wetted the other side. Predrilled and put 4 screws to hold the halves in place. Put some visqueen over it and laid the weight on. Once the weight was on I backed the screws up a little and then put em back in to make sure I got full compression. These pieces of marble were HEAVY!

[HawgLeg]

Solid as a rock and ready to go in.

[flatbackpaul]

looking good.  im glad to see that you're using plywood for the transom.  There are a lot of trendier, "new fangled" products out there but none with the proven strength and reliability of a good marine plywood transom.  The first one lasted 40+ years and you should get another 40+ out of this one.

Keep up the good work. 

[HawgLeg]

The first one lasted 40+ years and you should get another 40+ out of this one.

EXACTLY! Glad you are keeping up with my progress.