1973 196 rebuild question

[RickK]

If the control cables are the only thing going in the tube, then I'd agree. I have control, heavy battery wires, hydraulic lines, fuel line, all kinds of wires.... I have 2 tubes going aft, one on each side.

[Duffy1470]

For support. Will glass that in and put a hole saw to it(first)

[Duffy1470]

Don't know what happened to that picture

[Duffy1470]

Pretty sure I can fit two tubes thru that.

[RickK]

Before you commit, try running a control line through the pipe. There is about an 8" section (if I remember right) that is hard to get through.

[Duffy1470]

Other project done. Son's boat is done. Super fun building it with him. Glassed 9n the 196 upside down. Have a good evening all.

[dbiscayne]

I take back what I said earlier about where to mount the vent relative to the fill. Seems that if the vent is much lower than the fill you could end up spewing a lot of gas out of the vent before you realized whats going on. Maybe the right answer is to put them as close in height as possible.

[Duffy1470]

Does anybody just make that hole side for the cables and not put tubes in there. That pattern of the bilge is technically not supposed to get water in it. I still have the box that went over the bilge air supply.  It could be where the cables come out if I put it on the starboard side.

Good info on the fill and vent dbiscayne. Have not gotten my quote back yet from fab shop for tank yet.

[Duffy1470]

6 and 12 inch wet on wet



Down center right of keel. Will do port side tomorrow

[Duffy1470]

Boat is off center by about 2 or 3 inches. Look at the fuel tank step and the space between it and the keel and the difference from side to side. Interesting,  that's all.

[Duffy1470]

Got the quote back from bmc metals and it was ridiculously high, over $4000. Getting  another quote obviously. Would rather put gas in my hands than pay 4k.

[Ulysses485]

Good to see you keeping at it steady Duffy. What did you have quoted? Last time I had one quoted it was about $18/gallon.

[Duffy1470]

If I did the math right it was $80 / gallon. I'm in tn and the place I went does lots of big industrial jobs. Think this was their way of saying they didn't want to do it.

[Duffy1470]

Yeah, try to get something done every day. Kids are going back to school, went on vacation in orange Beach for a week with them and the Mrs so been slow few weeks in terms of the boat.  Got 2 gallons of A B foam, 1 a and 1 gal b. What can I expect out of that in terms of stringers?  Should be able to get at least one stringer, surely?  Any insight?

[Duffy1470]

Finished the other side tonight