This is a 1962 whaler we picked up on the 2014 4th of July weekend. It was not running and the trailer needed some work but she felt fairly light on the trailer so I figure she was not all that water logged and I thought I could use it for a while and maybe refresh her in the fall and spring. I wanted a whaler for a long time but most of them are cost prohibitive so I was looking for one that was a little rough but still usable
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After she got a new head gasket, re-built water pump and a overhaul of the trailer we got to use her for a long weekend over in Hopeville Pond, a crabbing trip in Groton, CT. and also on a fluke trip outside Rhode Island. When we pulled her up after we finish fluke fishing we noticed that there was some fiberglass weave that had pulled off from the bottom and that there was bottom paint under where the glass had peeled back......
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Starboard side of teh hull have been
sanded down to get an overview. |
It was not a good signal so the following days I stripped the interior and put her upside down to get a better idea on what was going on. What I discovered was that the whole bottom had been glassed over bottom paint and bondo that was hiding poorly made repairs so at that time I realized that it was not much more to do than to start stripping and see what was going on.
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Totally mindless repair of the
transom, simply cut out with a grinder
and then filled with glass filler. |
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The bow had been repaired by pinning a piece of
pine to the foam and then glassed over it with thin fiberglass weave. |
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A typical repair after the
clump of resin been removed. |
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| Along the keel there were several larger repairs hidden under a layer of glass. |
The bow eye was also busted
The weave had been applied to fairly smooth glass so it is not very well adhered to the original glass.
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| As it goes around edges it is peeling in several locations |
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| The boat have a layer of paint on top of a primer layer and the old gelcoat. |
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| At this point I was down to gelcoat and original fiberglass. and it is ready to get taken into the garage. |
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