I know one or two of ya know the story here but ill tell it again. I got a good deal on this boat from my boss. When I started at the shop 16 years ago I used to have to clean it before the boss took salesmen and customers on fishing trips. For the last 5 years it has sat under a carport at the shop. The last time it was out 5 years ago was to go to the shop and it went back under the carport. Well after day dreaming about having this boat on lake erie know for the past few years I finely got the nerve up to ask the boss if he wanted to sell it. So now for the past few weeks it has been in my driveway
I figured it would be a quick clean and fix a few things then on the water.
Oh by the way its a 1972 steplift with a 1986 eveinrude 150. Well right after I got it home I found this forums and started reading post and posting afew things. As I was reading I started seeing alot about transom and stringer problems so I figured I would check them on this boat. Well low and behold both are rotted bad. It must of had water between the hull and cap for along time.
All of these pictures where taken after cleaning it with just soap and water I later cleaned it with hull cleaner and it looked much better. I had also started taking stuff off and fixing or replacing it. So now im going to pull it up to my uncles poll building and split the hull and cap. Then replace the transom stringers and the floor along with painting it. Does this sound like a crazy amount of work for a 37 year old boat and 23 year old motor? The motor does run well with earmuffs on and has good compression on all six cylinders. Ill try to post more pics of it after I cleaned it and changed afew things. Right now im just looking for some input from others who have done this work before. I have done work like this before on a 1975 13' boston whaler with hull damage but never this much.
I figured it would be a quick clean and fix a few things then on the water.
Oh by the way its a 1972 steplift with a 1986 eveinrude 150. Well right after I got it home I found this forums and started reading post and posting afew things. As I was reading I started seeing alot about transom and stringer problems so I figured I would check them on this boat. Well low and behold both are rotted bad. It must of had water between the hull and cap for along time.
All of these pictures where taken after cleaning it with just soap and water I later cleaned it with hull cleaner and it looked much better. I had also started taking stuff off and fixing or replacing it. So now im going to pull it up to my uncles poll building and split the hull and cap. Then replace the transom stringers and the floor along with painting it. Does this sound like a crazy amount of work for a 37 year old boat and 23 year old motor? The motor does run well with earmuffs on and has good compression on all six cylinders. Ill try to post more pics of it after I cleaned it and changed afew things. Right now im just looking for some input from others who have done this work before. I have done work like this before on a 1975 13' boston whaler with hull damage but never this much.
The frist two are under the splashwell
