| This is a 19 foot 1957 Bell Boy Cuddy cabin boat for full restoration back to her glory.
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| This is were I got started on the boat. She was just backed into the shop. |
I have seen much worse. She has some nice lines to her, but a few challanges ahead. This boat will be Gorgeous when done. |
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started with going after an inspection of the boat to get a better idea
on what wood will need replaced. Not always do you you have to Gut the
boat and start over. Here, I started pulling out the old seating and
half full fuel tanks for the Hazmat people to take. |
Here I did an expection of the engine splashwell area. Like others that were boxed in like this, the foam they used ended up Holding water like a sponge. All of that had to come out. Just means looking for more water damage. Not many boats have the original engine hatch covers like this. A Major Score ! |
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is how I can get the Scripts back in the same place. Thanks to Marty
Loken from Islandboatshop.com, he has replacement scripts I can use
here. |
Here are some of those sweet lines I am talking about. The customer of this boat has made an excellent choice with this boat as she is a Very stable boat for the Puget Sound and San Juans. |
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| The transom looks bad but sound wise, is sounding like it just "Might" be ok for several years to come. Needs more testing |
Back to the inside of the cockpit area to see what I can salvage. Testing for bad wood. Floor seems ok but will drill some exploratory holes to see what the wood looks like. |
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| Well,
after doing some checking around all the holes that were drilled into
the transom, I found way to many black areas as well as some soft ones.
Too bad people do not caulk there holes when drilling and mounting things.
This is what happens when you don't. The wood will go back, then rot
to become soft. |
Too bad on this one as it does still have some good wood in it. Looks as someone has put a Transom Over a transom to double it up. Might be interesting pulling this all out. Some of the Really really rotton ones are easy as you can almost dig them out with a big kitchen spoon. |
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| Here I have the saddle tanks out, splashwell bulkhead is now out, seat braces are out as well as the helm is out. Inspection of the Cabin bulkhead shows it just fine. No need to replace it. |
This is going to be a treat. Lots of fiberglass to cut away to even get to the wood. Looks as they did several layers of glass matting for protection. She all has to come out down to the Fiberglass. |
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