pictures of repair progress...if any interested

[DavidF]

I purchased the boat wrecked. Great interior, great engine, well maintained other than being wrecked. I performed all the fiberglass and gelcoat repair work. Colors look different due to different cameras and light. I am currently reassembling and plan to have the boat back on the water in about two weeks. The trailer also got a full restoration and will go back under the boat this week.

[Eggie]

RE: pictures of repair progress...if any interested

Wow - that's the same boat ?? Very nice work !

[actiondcpd]

RE: pictures of repair progress...if any interested

Holy crap that is insane. Do you have any more "in-progress" shots? Great job.

[Onthewater]

RE: pictures of repair progress...if any interested

awesome :shock:

[DavidF]

Here are a couple of progress shots. Pic ...052 was taken after structural repairs complete and faired out. I then ground off all the stress cracked gelcoat and then applied thinned epoxy resin on the fiberglass in an attempt to fill the stress cracked fiberglass. I then sanded smooth applied a bit more fairing compound and sprayed on the new gelcoat. Work represents hundreds of manhours.

[NCH2oSki]

Wow, thats a heck of a project you took on there. It really looks great.

[darrel409]

What about a picture of the poor rocks that jumped out in front and caused all that damage?

Really David, it looks like you deserve some time off to go skiing! Great work!

[MHayes]

Absolutely incredible.....first picture looks like a new boat! Where did you learn all of this?

[M3Fan]

Ok, I'll ask- What happened to the boat? Car accident or water accident?

[OldFart]

looks like warranty to me

[BASC]

Fantastic Job, where did you find the time and acquire the skills to take a job of that size on?
How long has it taken you?
Now you need to get out and enjoy the fruits of your labour.

[DavidF]

I purchased the boat from another member of this board who I need to either thank or curse for making this possible. Actually, he took great care fo the boat before the accident, so that helped me make the decision to purchase the boat and go forward...and the price was right.

Before I purchased the boat, I had NEVER done any fiberglass or gelcoat repair work. I purchased books, pamplets, videos and scoured the net for weeks before beginning work. With that said, I tend to be talented at this type of work anyway as I have done ground up restoration on many cars of the years and I do my own paint and body work on cars. So, this really turned out to be remarkably similiar, just more mess and itching.

I purchased the boat on 9/18/04 and have been working on it ever since. I do most of the work at night after the wife and I put the youngest kid in bed. My wife has been an evening widow since the project started and she is ready for it to be done. Of course the noisey grinding work had to be done during the day to avoid disturbing the neighbors.

[mgswed]

Any word on how all this happened??? Looks like a pretty big crash. Hope everyones okay. Great job by the way!!!

[DavidF]

Darrel409 pretty much hints at the cause. It is my understanding that everyone walked away albeit with bumps, bruises and a fracture or two. Hopefully the bad karma (sp?) flew out of the boat with everyone else.

[darrel409]

Correct, everyone "walked" away. Its really really hard to completly sink a closed bow SN. All bad karma was extinguished on impact. M3Fan it was an on the water accident. Just a little miscalculation in the dark.