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Repairing the Hull of a Fiberglass Jet Boat to Accept New Stringers and Transom Wood

Today I will cover the work that I performed to the hull of my boat in preparation for the new stringers and transom. It has already taken a lot of work to get to this point, and it was rewarding to finally get all of the old wood out of the boat. But before I install the new Transom and Stringers, I have a few loose items to address and repair. Most of this work will take place at the rear of the boat. I need to fill the voids that are on the back of the transom. There is even a spot on the RR corner where there is a small pin hole. No one wants a hole in their boat, and I certainly don't want water getting in from the back side and into my new transom wood. I used a fiberglass structural repair putty to fill this void and bring the material flush with fiberglass of the transom. This will allow me to extend the new wood of the transom all the way down without having any voids behind it. I also had a small section on the rear of the boat, where it appears that the fiberglass is starting to separate from the gel coat. Both pieces are in good shape, but no longer attached. I did not want to pursue a fiberglass, or gel coat repair but I did want to try and correct it. I decided to use some West Marine G/Flex 605 Epoxy to re adhere the two pieces back together. The epoxy is mixed together in a 1:1 ratio. I then put it into a syringe with the largest and longest needle that I had. I then squeezed this out in between the two panels trying to get the epoxy as far back as I could. I then clamped the two panels together for the night. The other item that I needed to address was the section of the keel, that sits behind the pump. If you watched my last video we saw that a previous owner had dome some modifications to the pump intake. It was ground by hand, to a light curved shape in the rear. It also had the patter for a show and ride plate drilled into it, although was not milled down to accept one. Furthermore the back edge of the boat was ground down and reworked heavily. The fiberglass work back here left a lot to be desired. You could clearly see right through it, and it also had significant cracking. This is covered by the pump intake, so since the pump intake was out I wanted to repair it from the top side now. I ground out all the old suspect glass from the top as far down as I was comfortable with. I then build the surface back up with 1708 cloth and Vinyl Ester resin. Once the intake is reinstalled I will finalize the repair from the bottom side. The holes for the mysterious water pick ups were about 1" in diameter. I beveled the holes out from the top side only, tapering them out to about 6" in diameter. I then used a total of 9 layers of 1708 to build it back up. The first piece was the same size as the hole, and each piece was about 1/4 larger than the last. Now I did not do any repair work to the bottom side of these holes at this time. I used blue painters tape to mask the holes. Once I am finished with the installation of the stringers I will raise the boat on the jack stands and finalize the repairs on the bottom. I also cover the work that I did to grind out and prep the Hull of the boat. I went through quite the selection of tools and grinders during this work. At the end of the video I go over my final thoughts on the tools and which ones you may want to consider for your projects. My goal is to try to keep the detail high in these videos, while also trying to keep them from getting to long and drawn out. So I will try to break these videos down into smaller segments. So if you haven’t, I encourage you to subscribe to the channel so you can be notified of the new videos coming out. I hope that you find this series of videos to be helpful for your project. If you have comments, suggests or tips that you would like to share please leave them in the comments section! Thank you for watching!!! If you enjoyed this video take a look at my other videos on this 79 Centurion Jet Boat. 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