Recent content by Captglasshole

Yeah, one of my previous boats was a mako that had a notched transom. Always made me nervous when that splashwell would fill up. Had a dusky after that. Decided I was never going back to an open transom again after realizing how much safer I felt with my kids on board with a bracket...

Got out yesterday for the first trip of the year with the kiddo's. Nice to have a solid floor to walk on. I did the oil change/gear oil change last week so I was glad to see the engine didn't miss a beat. Always a little nervous about that on the first trip of the year. No fish but was a...

My 1988 242 (bracketed offshore) has a solid transom.

My starboard nav light is blown out too. Can you send me the link for the one you bought?

Yeah.....I found that out the hard way. I made a bonehead mistake when I bedded the core down too. I used my big RTIC 145 with my generator on top. I didn't think about the cooler having the Rubber Feet so there was minimal pressure in the middle. If you look close in the pic, I had to drill...

Well, she is in. I took DennisG's advice and didn't take the core all the way to the edge. I also mixed up a batch of peanut butter and put it anywhere a screw would penetrate to hopefully avoid any potential water intrusion into the panel. I got it back in the boat and bedded in with 3m...

Calling for 75 and light winds here in Ocean City, MD this Sunday. I'll be out flounder fishing with the kiddo's for my first trip of the year!

I haven't mixed it, but my buddy used the sand beige on his steiger craft. I'm going to go with that when I redo my floor after I'm done my hatch re-core's

My buddy has one with a F250 and he wishes he had a 300. The yamaha 225 is a weak 225 (closer to 208-210hp). I think you will be running close to 4800-5000 rpms for a comfortable cruise.

Most of the wood came up with the pry bar on this panel. My grinder with a 60 grit made quick work of anything still stuck on there. The forward panel has some soft spots but is nowhere near as spongy as this one. That one may give me some issues getting the old core up. I will take your...

All my fiberglass stuff is in, just waiting on the weather to warm up a bit so my resin is able to do its thing. I took advantage of the nice day yesterday and pulled the rear panel. Turns out I have a freshwater tank under there. Looks like at some point it may have had the aux fuel tank...

Yeah once I pull the hatch I’ll see what I’m working with. This is a guy I follow on YouTube and he takes his wood all the way out on his Grady. But once I pull it I will know more like you said. Other updates, I wired up a backup bilge pump. Just gotta pick up some more 5200 to mount the...

My thought was if I don’t take the core all the way to the edge wouldn’t I need the cabosil to make some peanut butter to fill in that gap between the core and the edge of the panel? Also, I got bored a little while ago and found an old piece of 1/2” acrylic I had laying around. I need to clean...

Makes sense and prob better that the ply doesn’t go all the way to the edge that way when you screw the panel down you aren’t screwing into wood compromising it by potentially allowing water to get in. Kind of thinking I should have ordered more than a quart of Cabosil now haha

If I came off as condescending I apologize, wasn’t my intention. I tend to over think and over research projects before I go balls deep in them. Another reason for going vinyl ester is because (like you suggested) I’m putting down a layer of CSM first before the core. From what I’ve read epoxy...