This has been my project over the last week or so. Lots of work to do before ice out and fishing charter season begins up in the Yukon. I have a deadline of 3 weeks to get her sorted : )
I am rebuilding my boat - a 1982 C-Dory 22 Angler. She is a pilothouse with a forward berth, a stowable kitchen table, a stove and a propane marine heater. Somewhat uniquely, she is also a true displacement hull - meaning that there is no 'vee' shape to the bottom of her hull.
From the factory she had 5 teak keel strips fastened onto her bottom on top of the gel coat. The strips had some sort of 1980s goop and stainless screws holding the on and going directly into her wood core. Last year some of the strips began to come off, leaving holes going into her insides. Not ideal.
So far I have gotten her off of the trailer and flipped onto her side. I removed the old strips and then spent days sanding down the old gelcoat until I hit bare glass. The sanding was horrible.
The new keel strips are now on - made out of red oak. I radiused the edges with a router, drilled, countersunk and finally sanded. The new strips are bedded in thickened epoxy and clamped to the hull with stainless fasteners. The fastener heads have been covered with epoxy and the edges have fillets.
Next is to sand everything down again, degrease, cut cloth and begin covering the entire bottom hull with the cloth and graphite-impregnated epoxy.
Once the bottom is done she will get spot gelcoat repairs to her topside and a full cut, polish and wax. She also getting new fenders, all new lines, a new bow swim ladder, new fuel gauges, a new transducer mount, new rub rails and a new prop for the main (90 Evinrude).
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