Not bad for an occational Colorado fishing trip.

Is equiped just right for my needs.

Took it out for a shakedown cruise and had a blast. The 50 hp is just about right for this boat and the trolling motor works fine. The 50 hp idles just about right to trol with as well. Seems like there is a soft floor up front. I'll pull the carpet and see what's up.

The plywood that used to be under the fiberglass is rotten.

Made for very usefull storage uner the two mid deck seats.

You can hide the real problem, but it won't go away.

All the foam is like a wet sponge and there is trapped standing water under the rotten flooring.

The more I look the worse it gets. There were three layers of flooring ranging from OBS to 1/2 ply overlayed with poly and mat. The reason? Someone thought hiding it under cheap carpet would do just fine.

The only structure under the front deck was provided by the fiberglass layer.

I can't get over how much water retention you can get from foam.

All I can say about this phase is "Very dirty and tedious".

Took me about 30 hours with a 4 1/2" angle grinder to get to this point.

Down to the bare hull....what a joy...40 hours and I am going to quit counting

cut down too far removing the rotten floor and went thru the hull.

I guess I'll have some outside and inside layups here.

4 New rear section stringers cut and sitting in place.....let the epoxy begin ....only 80 hours more or less and over $500 in materials....more...not less...

three rear section stringers down and one to go

Battery/gas tank deck is now in, rear pedistal and main seat reinforment is in...all it takes is time and money and time and money and more time .... you get the picture...can't wait to get this baby back in the water so I can actually have some fun.

After multiple trims even after using a cardboard template...not as easy as it looks. rear segment is installed after sealing in epoxy resin and then mounted using SS screws on all four headers every 8 " or so. Edges get filled to the hull using thickened epoxy.

3 lateral stringers also sealed and set in filled epoxy, set using 6 inch strips of S-glass on each side and then overwrapped by S-glass and epoxy......lots and lots of epoxy....and glass

Finally the last two deck pieces are set, screwed in place and gap filled.

How good does this feel.....tomarrow this gets a final wipedown and then the whole surface gets glass strip around the side and 6 oz. glass cloth and epoxy over the whole thing.

hard to see, but inner and out layers with thickened epoxy in between.

Looks alot like two SS screws

These screws pull the flooring down onto a reinforcing strip of plywood mounted perpendicular to the stringers and used to tye the flooring junction together....now all I have to do is figure out what to do for this fupah repair....like I don't already have enough work to do here....