I've NEVER Used This Before - Let's See If It Works!
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- We're making big progress on the $1000 Zebra Skiff restoration! In this episode, we’re capping the stringers, installing bulkheads, and prepping for the deck using a coring material I’ve never worked with before. This boat is coming together, and we’re just weeks away from completion!
🔹 What’s in this video?
✔️ Capping the stringers with fiberglass
✔️ Cutting and shaping polyurethane foam bulkheads
✔️ Laminating bulkheads with 1708 fiberglass
✔️ Prepping the deck with composite materials
✔️ Fixing weak spots in the transom
This project has been a challenge, but the results are transforming this budget skiff into a solid boat. If you’re into boat restoration, fiberglass work, or DIY boat building, this series is for you!
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Looking great bro. You definitely have a knack for this stuff. You make it look so easy. Can't wait for the next video.
@@SalvatoreFeudi thank you brother. I enjoy learning and have gotten a little better but I have alot more to practice and learn! 🤙🛥️🌊
You have come so far with this project great job and lucky the weather is nice and sunny. Thank you 😊 for sharing. I’m ready to see the future projects.
Divynacell type foams have become one of my favorite core materials to work with. Looking good so far 👍
@@5thdayadventures thank you brother! I love it! 🤙🌊🛥️
Nice progress. It'll be a nice little zip around boat for sure.
Thanks man! I think it will be too. Easy to just load and go. I can get out on the water a lot more and for cheap! 🤙🌊🛥️
Can’t wait to see the end product. You keeping that one or selling it?
Hey Jorge! I can’t wait to be done either. A few more weeks! I’m keeping this thing. It’s just fun and easy and I can take it out whenever. I also want to do content all over the state with it. Springs, west coast of Florida, rivers etc. But I think I’m going to build another one down the line to give away to a subscriber. 🤙🌊🛥️
Something i liked doing was pre-wetting the pre-cut/measured strips of 1708 on a piece of scrap cardboard or posterboard. (Doesn't really work well with mat unless it's thick.)
Then just transfer and place the wet glass in the correct location.
I thought it saved time, prevented any dry spots, was less messy, and was a more consistant application of resin.
So many ways to skin a cat, but you seem to like trying different methods, so if you get a wild hair maybe think about giving it a go.
I really enjoy watching someone else work with that good old itchy stuff instead of me!
Keep up the good work and interesting content. Cheers
That’s a great idea and I’ve done it before. Honestly what I should’ve done is made a dry fit with the glass and THEN make my relief cuts and THEN wet it out like you say and install it. It’s definitely less messy that way. Thanks for the tips and thanks for watching brother! 🤙🛥️🌊
How did you learn all this engineering stuff. Dope as hell brother ✊🏼✊🏼
Thanks man! Nah no engineering. I learned from UA-cam and from friends who know about glass. Laz from FGCI has guided me too. Still have a lot to learn. 🤙🌊🛥️
Well done bro. What did you use to cut the stringer foam. 👍👍👍👍👍🍻🍻
Hey man thanks for watching! I just used the multi tool but you can use a hand saw. It’s easy to cut and shape. 🤙🌊🛥️
You don't wet the surface with resin before you apply the fiberglass... It will stick...but will it be as strong...if you had wet the surface with resin first?...
All surfaces were coated with resin before applying glass. It allows the pores to be filled and makes for better adhesion with the glass.
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When’s the Sea Craft project start back up
As soon as I’m done with the skiff. I just laminated the floor today so I’ll be back on the Seacraft in the next two weeks. Then it will be non stop till it’s done. I have a trip planned for May and want it done by then. 🤙🌊🛥️
Another great video buddy but I must ask from a purley economic stand point will you be able to recover your costs and make a little something for yourself.
The question in my mind is when do you say this project have merit and when do you just pat the hull and walk away
LOL I'll answer this for him... at the cost or resin and materials nowadays, a rebuild like this is not economical at all it makes more sense to toss it. Unless you score some free or really cheap material. This is purely a labor of love...
Pretty much what @5thdayadventures said. I’m extremely lucky to have found a partnership with FGCI who supplies most of my supplies. I still have to do electrical motor etc.
IMO a build like this makes sense if the hull is worth restoring so an old sea craft mako contender etc. that will have value once it’s done and will probably ride better than any new boat out there. Also, if your goal is to strictly save money by doing it yourself then I can see someone attempting to. Flats boats today are going for 35k plus on the cheap end. A new 17 key west is around that. New motor and materials is probably under 20k for this boat so you’ll save a bit doing it yourself. Problem is not many actually finish.
On the Seacraft I’m documenting every penny I spend so I can show what it actually cost to do a restore as an average dude. I’m curious to see. 🤙🛥️🌊
So what do you figure happened to this Seacraft?...that the stringers were so compromised... these boats were built like battleships...stringers encased in fiberglass...multiple layers of plywood encased in fiberglass as well in the transom...pity...it all went to pot...
Well this isn’t a Seacraft. These stringers were foam filled but they were full of water. Someone drilled the wood deck into the fiberglass and water seeped in over the years. Same for the transom but it wasn’t as bad as the deck.
Are you using a consolidation roller?
Yes that’s last.