Va Beach v20 project

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Here's my bow cap temperally put up on so I can mock up my inner rail. I do a lot of wreck fishing and in shore live baiting while anchored up so as you can see I made the bow as narrow as possible so I can drop anchor from the step up platform. One thing I can't stand is when its a little snotty and you have to get up on that freaking bow deck to throw anchor. My brother said " your taking away from that Carolina boat custom look by not having a big deck up front" so looked at him and laughed and said looks ain't everything!!!!!
 
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Here's another petpeev that I can solve while I'm at this point. Every factory boat I have ever owned has had a hole in the anchor rope locker that is only like 1/4 to 1/2 inch in diameter. And get easily blocked and clogged by debris and ultimately filling rod locker up with 3 or 4 inches of nasty a$$ water. So I drilled mine out 1 1/2 inches and then filled edges with thickened resin and milled fibers to waterproof upper level deck core.
 
MJ, is that touch screen also? I look at some of these new units and think back to the loran c searanger days and laugh. Some of these units now even have engine gauges on them now meaning all you need is the monitor on the dash!!!! Unreal and very very cool.
 
this is the 4000 series, you need to go with the 5000 series for touch screen. I did not want the touch because i commercial fish alot and did not want fish gut hands on the screen all the time! :sick:
IA remember fishing with nothing and it was something to get a corpus! then the loran, and my first gps was a handheld, no charts, we have come a long way!!
this unit was $2000 at the boat show a few years back, with radar, sounder, and gps. I an very happy with it!!
 
Kracker Jack said:
MJ, is that touch screen also? I look at some of these new units and think back to the loran c searanger days and laugh. Some of these units now even have engine gauges on them now meaning all you need is the monitor on the dash!!!! Unreal and very very cool.
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I remember the old dayz too.

I found some old rolls of paper from my old SITEX Graph Depth finder. There were some nice marks on there from the old Salmon Slammin dayz
 
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So I decide if I'm gonna do this boat then I'm gonna do it right the first time. Even though the hull is built like a moose I also decide to recore the half rotted core ply on my console. I cut from the top because I'm gonna glass over the whole top anyway. Iwill then flip it over and patch those steering and control holes from the bottom with some progressive patchs of CSM.
 
On the glassing of the console/recore, sounds good to me. I need to do the exact same thing with my raised casting deck.
BTW - It does get interesting trying to stand up there while trying to anchor.
Love the anchor locker drain too. Small details make all the difference. Whaler's anchor locker drain was like 3/16" inside diameter, it stayed plugged up. On the Wellcraft, I stepped up to a 1" drain with the Perko Chrome vent over the top.
 
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Hot coated the pre cut core material and thickened the left over resin to fill voids around the top of console (always take advantage of what you have mixed,it will save you a lot of resin in the long run)

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I then let the hot coat kick then mixed my thickened resin and applied with 1/4 inch notch trowel.

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I then put my core ply inplace and smushed it around to get an even layer of thickened resin between the ply and console skin. A big mistake I've learned is squeezing to much resin out of the bonding surface. Always keep a thin layer of resin in there or you won't get a good bond.
 
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Kracker she is looking GREAT!! Keep the pics coming! I think Im going to Frankenstein my sons console this winter.
 
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Well kinda mocked her up so I can take some measurements so I took some pics.

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Here's another pic. I can't wait to put this boat together for good.
 
Stupid question, have you replaced the bow eye yet? I have yet to own an old boat that did not eventually need one. Plus that will bug the crap out of you being the only hardware that wasn't replaced....
 
jasoncooperpcola said:
Stupid question, have you replaced the bow eye yet? I have yet to own an old boat that did not eventually need one. Plus that will bug the crap out of you being the only hardware that wasn't replaced....
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Yea I already have a new one. A buddy of mine recomended me to replace it. Thank you for the heads up.
 
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Here she is all glassed up with a single layer of 1708. If you look closely at the opening on the console you will see a 3/4 ply band that that wraps the opening I did this to create shear strength in the console for the purpose of the t-top getting bolted to it. The console orginally was just a mold and really had no horizontal strength. I'm also gonna glass a piece of 3/4 ply 12"x16" to mount fuse panels and battery switches and other electrical knick knacks
 
Coming along nicely!

I always make a point to wipe off the dripping resin with a rag with some solvent on it. Makes it a lot easier than sanding it off.
 
Hey guys I need some opinions. I'm thinking of glassing my console down to the deck and not using screws or fasteners. What's yalls opinions on this. I see a lot of guys on other forums doing this.
 
Kracker, I say get your console exactly where you want it then glass it down. If properly done, you will have a much more solid connection. Less vibration too. I am glassing the cap to my hull when it goes back together for these reasons.
 
Sounds like a idea, but were is the gas tank, and other stuff?? If need to get down in that area you will have a B***h of a time if its glassed down! How about weight distribution? Are you sure ts going were its going?? If you need to move it forward or back to get the boat level in the water, its going to be easy to adjust before mounting. But if all is well, and clear then go for it, like stated it will be nice, and stable.
 
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