So you think your boat is rotten/aka C500 Resto

[V153]

You ain't seen nuthin yet. Me'n Bobby Beer grew a wild hair'n dug into the C500 a lil more. It's a mess. But ... compared to the 153 resto it oughta be a piece of cake. Transom + stringer + floor = Done. Well add paint, interior, rigging & motor and it's done ...?

[Glastronjohn18]

Hey Doug, I'd say that boat is water ready.  Wait...I think the water is on the wrong side of the hull.

[Fuzzbutt]

Mine was worse Doug. At least you don't also have to rebuild the seat boxes. Good luck. The fun part is next. I loved my rebuild.

[V153]

Nah that ain't no water John. That's the nasty crud that dribbled outa the fuel line when we disconnected it at the splash well fitting. Got everything off cept the light socket & wire bundle thingy.

Plan is to eliminate the bow tank & use that area for storage, as there is virtually none in the boat. "Flotation boxes" will be eliminated & replaced with fuel tanks. Purty sure I can fit a 9 gal portable on either side. Then I'll just make a curtain to cover em up.

Looks like the composite transom from the 153 can be salvaged for use in the 500. Just gotta get the dang lid off of it. The peckerhead PO "repaired" a ding in the bow'n glued the halves together with what appears to be that freakin aerosol expanding foam that sticks to anything. There's a thin tab of glass attaching the bottom of the splash well to the transom but the lid's free everywhere else.

Yeah I'm actually looking forward to doing this one. Plan includes hanging a V6 on it. Ernie's got a 225 Johnson shortshaft he keeps tryin to get me to buy. That'd be purty killer?

[75starflight]

I like the plan Doug!

[V153]

It's a miracle! The tank's out! What a freakin pita that was.

Check out the "repair": Cardboard dam with adhesive spray foam everywhere. We're still tryin to figger out how he got it in there ...?

Sorry for the night pics but it's so dang hot here the only time fit for man or beast to work is after dark. 96 for the high today. And it ain't even got real humid yet. Gonna be a long hot summer.

[V153]

Mine was worse Doug. At least you don't also have to rebuild the seat boxes. Good luck. The fun part is next. I loved my rebuild.

Hey Fuzz! Where you been hidin?

[Fuzzbutt]

Mine was worse Doug. At least you don't also have to rebuild the seat boxes. Good luck. The fun part is next. I loved my rebuild.

Hey Fuzz! Where you been hidin?

Well I have an 8 year old who wanted to join Cub Scouts. Well of the 7 other fathers seems I was the best choice for their Den Leader. So besides the normal Fatherly stuff for him and my 4 year old and as much work as I can fill a week with I get pretty busy. I'm around. Busy but around. I see the Facebook stuff more than anything but I peek my head in once in a while. I've taken up another sport, shooting. I've been a life long skeet shooter (not competition but just for fun) and moved that into the personal protection area too so that takes some more of my free time a a considerable chunk of my play money, I shoot about $150 a month in 9mm, but I sill love boating. 

How have you been? I'm still amazed you survived that channel marker. This new project looks like a fun one. Though if you are still a Florida resident I can't imagine it is good weather to be wearing a tyvek suit and grinding fiberglass.

[Hyperacme]

" Looks like the composite transom from the 153 can be salvaged for use in the 500. "

That's cool that the V-153 lives on in another G/C ...

[Rosscoe]

Yeah, that has to be pleasant. Heat and grinding fiberglass.
Glad to see you starting on that one Doug.
So apparently you kept some of the 153 after cutting it up?

[V153]

Yo Fuzz, the channel marker was a cake walk compared to this dang diverticulitis. Gimme broken bones any day over this! Tyvek suits are for wussies ...  'Sides I sweat so much nothing has a chance to get into my pores. Plus the outside shower is just steps away.

Yeah I saved a lot of the 153. Just couldn't bear to toss out all of that expensive 'Tough Stuff'.

Yup the 500 will have the backbone of the 153. Kinda psyched about that. Gonna require some cleaning up but I intend to salvage as much as possible.

As you can see UV rays will eat up uncovered resin:

[Fuzzbutt]

Doug, My mom has diverticulitis too. No not fun at all. Her sister has ciliac disease. That's not too much fun either.

Interesting that you saved the V153 like that. Nice and thrifty to reuse the backbone of a former Glastron in your new project.

[V153]

Yeah Chris tell yer Ma I feel her pain. It's a real sob!

Making a lil progress. Hope to have more done by the end of the day but man is it hot out there. Currently 94. Phew!

[V153]

I'd like to get my hands on the guy that "fixed" this thing. Way to make a tough job tougher peckerhead.

Oh well got some more of the bulkhead out. Taking another AC break now ...

[Jerry]

Looks like it ain't gonna sink. With yer luck maybe a layer of glass over the whole thing would be a good idea.

[V153]

If anything this boat's got way too much foam in it. It's freakin everywhere. Turns into brown dust when you touch it. Screw it, it's all coming out.

Got most of the bilgewell out:

[V153]

Been at it since first thing this am. Callin it a day.

[Glastronjohn18]

You're making great progress and I'm still laughing at the cardboard/foam repair.

[Hyperacme]

" I'm still laughing at the cardboard/foam repair. "

What was he thinking ?
Guess it was a cheap, and maybe easy fix ...
and he did it without removing fuel tank ?

Love the red behind the dash cover ...

Your  "Going to town " on it !
Don't over do it in the high temp's ...
Ya aint as young as ya use to be !

[V153]

I'm still laughing at the cardboard/foam repair.

Well I'm glad you guys find humor in it ...