Barn find Glastron ssv178

fergal.b

So here is my next little project it's a 70/80's Glastron SSV178 with a 115 hp mercury tower of power I think I'll call her Old's Cool hunter I have bought the boat just going on the photos "something you should never do":eek: but she looks complete and as she has been stored in a barn for a number of years she may not have a rotten stringers,transom and floor I'll know a bit more when I go to pick her up tomorrow I just hope the trailer is up to the trip back from Galway.

Steve

Jaysus Fergal, your'e a glutton for punishment!!!

Well wear mate!

HeidiHeidi

Gawd almighty, is there no end to your energy, Fergal :eek:

fergal.b

You have to look under the dirt and dust there is a shiny new penny in there




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pedroeibar1

fergal.b wrote: »

You have to look under the dirt and dust there is a shiny new penny in there .

Steve and Heidi beat me to it with glutton and energy!! Possibly a shiny penny there but I saw straw, heard of a barn, so there must be chickens... hope you don't have a poop deck! Anyway, that penny ain't legal tender, no matter how shiny, decimals now ruling the roost.;)
Is that carpet on the cockpit sole? How does one describe nautical "rug" when it is wall-to-wall? Transom-to-bow? Bulkhead-to-bulkhead?
Looking forward to seeing the progress over the winter, don't let it keep you off the water this summer!

fergal.b

Well she made it home safe and sound and to my surprise when I picked her up the owner had taken her out of the shed and given her a wash, maybe he should have done that before he put her up for sale not too bad looking.












And of course I had to play with this little baby

Skuxx

Wow, it's a completely different boat already!! Looks like a great find! I'm jealous! Would love a project like that!

fergal.b

Don't judge a book by it's cover :eek: Well I half expected this the transom is rotten so I'm going to split the boat in half and replace it along with the stringers, I was hopping to get a bit of use out of the boat this summer but that is so bad I'm not going to take the chance "not with my look"

fergal.b

A bit of stripping out today, why o why would someone put chipboard down as a floor in a boat they didn't even try to seal it :roll eyes:





The old rotten floor wasn't even taken out.

Steve

To be honest Fergal, I'm glad you bought it rather than some unsuspecting newbie wanting a thrill only to end up with the engine overtaking the hull and becoming a drowning statistic somewhere in the Irish sea..

At least you know what you're doing and it will be seaworthy before getting it wet again.

Bio Mech

fergal.b wrote: »

A bit of stripping out today, why o why would someone put chipboard down as a floor in a boat they didn't even try to seal it :roll eyes:

A guy in a builders providers tried to convince me to use chipboard rather than marine ply for my new floor recently. Said marine ply was too expensive and wasn't really needed.

Maybe the owner of your Glastron was swayed by someone like him.

Are you going to put the carpet back in?

catastrophy

Fair play Fergal. I love seeing restorations. It's a handsome boat too.

ezra_

Best of luck to you!

bpmdj

Oh no, not chipboard! Are the stringers rotten also? Good luck with the restoration!

Alkers

Follows!

Big Nasty

Best of luck with this one Fergal. I saw what happened to the last one. Fair play for getting back into the saddle again dude.

JamesM

My reaction:
1st lot of photos - Looks a bit of a tub.
2nd lot of photos - Quite nice lines.
3rd lot of photos - This is going to be a great thread

fergal.b

I'll do my best James so far the stringers look good but the cross beams and the keel board are rotten along with everything in the transom. I'm going to try and save the metal flake paint but it's not easy to restore and will be hard to get it back to bright blue as you can feel the flakes if you rub your hands along it if it can't be saved I will paint over it or I might even try a vinyl wrap :roll eyes: not much to show today rain kept stoping play.

pedroeibar1

Those washers in your post #8 look OK and are worth saving!:D:)

Sh1tbag OToole

That's a fine bag of kindling Fergal. Did the engine take much to get running? Any cloud of blue shmoke when first starting or was that in the video the first time?

I always like to see an engine being started that has sat idle for 10 or 20 years and seeing the birds nests and mouse carcasses being blown out the exhaust

fergal.b

The guy I bought it off got it going before I got there it was the main reason I bought her if the engine was bad I would have walked away.

pedroeibar1 the washers will be polished up and looking like new.



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fergal.b

Saw dust be like man glitter

Fibreglass dust be like radioactive fallout

fergal.b

Slowly getting there, I'm not sure yet if I will remove the old stringers as they aren't too bad up front so I might just smooth off one side and double them up with the new ones.

fergal.b

Well thats one use for a mobility hoist :eek: I used it more to keep the engine balanced than to lift it, to take the engine off I lowered the trailer with the jockey wheel placed wooden blocks under the skeg and then lifted the front of the trailer up till the transom was lower than the clamps then pulled the boat forward.



That one 2 minute bolt that snaps and turns into a 2 hour bolt



I used the stand I got for the V8




More holes than a golf course.



A bit of a mess.

fergal.b

As the transom board doesn't go the full width of the boat I was able to get away with just cutting away the splash well
I'll just paint a stripe or use some timber moulding to hide the repair.
I'm going to make some plywood stringers here with knees that go up the transom for extra strenght

Dont think I will be able to get a template off this one.:eek:

Sh1tbag OToole

You'll get another bit of kindling though boss. I hope you're not throwing those bags away :eek: there's good burning in them yet.

Looking forward to the next pics already

fergal.b

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

You'll get another bit of kindling though boss. I hope you're not throwing those bags away :eek: there's good burning in them yet.

Looking forward to the next pics already

It's all going to make chipboard so the next fool can use it on a boat






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fergal.b

That's that out.

The Black Oil

fergal.b wrote: »

Saw dust be like man glitter

Fibreglass dust be like radioactive fallout

Pardon my ignorance here, I know nothing about boats. Is fibreglass toxic when applying it, or what's the story?

fergal.b

The Black Oil wrote: »

Pardon my ignorance here, I know nothing about boats. Is fibreglass toxic when applying it, or what's the story?

Some are more toxic than others I'm using west system and it's not that bad when applying unlike polyester, the gear I'm wearing in the photo is to protect against the fiberglass dust when I'm sanding and cutting as the dust is made of small fragments of glass that are very irritating to skin,eyes and the respiratory tract.





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fergal.b

The stringers had a little bit of good wood in them

breghall

Looking forward to this... Nice find Fergal.

Any foam at all in it or was it made without?

fergal.b

breghall wrote: »

Looking forward to this... Nice find Fergal.

Any foam at all in it or was it made without?

Yep lots of foam filling up all the nooks and crannies I need to get at

fergal.b

I cut out a cardboard template of the transom.



Then epoxied two prices of 3/4" marine ply together and marked out with the template making it 1/2" bigger top and bottom to allow for the offset of the transom when I cut it,side on it looks like a parallelogram.




To finish off I gave it a few coats of epoxy then covered it in fibreglass cloth.

fergal.b

Glued up ready to go






I also picked up some burgundy/grey vinyl to make a start on the seats and the padding.

fergal.b

Stringers done and glassed in thank God thats over





A bit of extra support for the transom I still have a bit more to do on each side.




Floor in and epoxied coated. I planned on putting a grey rubber backed carpet down but today I found a remnant of black rubber back for €15 so I grabbed it



After all that hard work I needed some retail therapy "My style" my wallet wasn't too impressed

Sh1tbag OToole

All proper honest to god 'marine' stuff, no corners cut to save a few bob. How much did the RPM-o-meter cost just out of interest? I sold an 85mm one the other day that's nearly 20 years old and had a bitteen mould growing inside it on ebay and it still made £25 GBP

fergal.b

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

All proper honest to god 'marine' stuff, no corners cut to save a few bob. How much did the RPM-o-meter cost just out of interest? I sold an 85mm one the other day that's nearly 20 years old and had a bitteen mould growing inside it on ebay and it still made £25 GBP

€50 on sale I try not to cut corners as to the safe running of the boats electrics and so on as it's one of the main things that can leave you dead in the water but for cosmetics I cut every corner to get the best look for the cheapest makeup


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Hifive

Marine parts direct must send you gold plated Christmas cards!

insebayguy

YES!! My life has meaning again. This makes me feel so emasculated and yet empowered, at the same time, it's a weird feeling.
Love seeing your projects. I'll be all over this one

fergal.b

Thanks insebayguy I hope you wont be disappointed

Not much I could do on the boat today with the rain so I dropped the gearbox to change the impeller.





A good bit of wear on the blades and the o ring was broken.



I also started to removed the old decals using a heatgun and then thinners to get the glue off it turned out to be a very messy and sticky job.




After a quick lick of paint, just waiting on the new decals to arrive.





As the work is getting a bit much for me on my own I decided to drop out to the DSPCA in Rathfarnham and pick up this little girl, not as nice as a mercury face plate but close enough

spaceHopper

The best little hardware store in the world Churchtown stores sell a spray called sticky stuff remover that is great for that kind of job. One of the lads in work managed to beat them by finding something they didn't have first time in years

bluezulu49

fergal.b wrote: »

After a quick lick of paint, just waiting on the new decals to arrive.

Hi Fergal,
I envy your abilities and am very impressed by your painting among all of your other skills. Which paint did you use for the motor and how did you apply it?
Thanks,
Bluezulu49

fergal.b

Cheers, nothing fancy for this one just Halfords gloss black over the etching primer "you need this for aluminium" and then a few coats of clear lacquer.

I decided to go with a new water pump kit as the top looked liked it had overheated so better safe than sorry. I also picked up a new prop it had a 13x19 but I went for a 13x21 as I think it will be better for all round boating instead of water sports where the 19 would give a better hole shot.

insebayguy

This thread goes from strength to strength. Pussy pics & Hole shot..? No idea what that is but sounds like the name of a golf themed porno movie. All this along with great pics of this mans craft Any chance you're looking to adopt a 36 yr old geezer? You can claim for me on your tax free allowance. I have a beard and I wipe my own ass. I'm not much hassle really

fergal.b

insebayguy wrote: »

This thread goes from strength to strength. Pussy pics & Hole shot..? No idea what that is but sounds like the name of a golf themed porno movie. All this along with great pics of this mans craft Any chance you're looking to adopt a 36 yr old geezer? You can claim for me on your tax free allowance. I have a beard and I wipe my own ass. I'm not much hassle really

A hole shot is when you are taking off from standing still it's handy for getting a skier up on the water quick instead of pulling through the water and ripping their arms off. I already have an adopted 20 year old girl although she was 3 months old when I adopted her now she is in collage and using up all my boating funds so thanks but no thanks




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martin6651

Fergal, Question did you cover the surfaces with cloth that were glued together
and what glue did you use.

fergal.b

martin6651 wrote: »

Fergal, Question did you cover the surfaces with cloth that were glued together
and what glue did you use.

If you mean the two bits of the transom yes after they were glued I covered them in cloth. The glue is a thickened epoxy called SP 130 it's a pinky brown when mixed and I just found it handier than mixing epoxy resin and filler.

fergal.b

That's the impeller done

martin6651

Sorry Fergal what I meant was did you cover the inner surfaces(the side you put the glue on) with cloth before you glued up.

fergal.b

martin6651 wrote: »

Sorry Fergal what I meant was did you cover the inner surfaces(the side you put the glue on) with cloth before you glued up.

Yep I did just to make sure it was fully sealed.