So...my "new to me" CD 16 is water-logged!

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A coat of paint soon...just trying to make it useable until fall. Then I'll really get into it. Getting to be a pretty intensive project and dont want to lose use of it for the whole summer.
 
Looks like you're really getting after it! We had a 16 and loved it. It sounds like you're up to whatever it's going to take to restore the boat.

I just returned from a month and a half doing the inside passage from Olympia to Petersburg and back. We spent a little while in Petersburg and I saw your boat in the harbor. (It may be a while, but I will eventually get around to posting some pictures of this year's trip.) I did a little King Salmon and Halibut fishing, but will miss the Coho run this year. Any chance you can be back in the water by the end of August? I can hear the hole above Bergman's dock calling me now! Or maybe that's Woodpecker Cove I hear. I envy you living up there full time.

Good luck with the project. Keep us posted.
 
Wow...if your gonna go...go big or go home. 8) Looks like you got your hands full but it's the only way to do it correctly. Would love to see pics of the process and finished product.
 
To find someone who has a moisture meter try calling the home inspectors in your area. The "Protimeter Surveymaster" I use has detachable 4" pins that are ideal for finding moisture in a hull (toothpick sized holes must be drilled for this application). The Surveymaster also has a "radio wave" mode that will indicate, though not quantify, areas of elevated moisture.
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Sorry to disagree with you, but there are far better moisture meters for boats than the Protimeter Surveymaster, and they are a lot cheaper. The Electrophysics as discussed earlier in this thread is a good, and relitatively inexpensive marine meter designed for marine use. You don't want to drill even small holes in the surface of a fiberglass hull for the purpose of determining moisture.
 
Certainly one would not want to drill holes in a boat that didn't already have numerous holes already in it. The comment to drill holes pertained to the boat in the photographs that appears to be in the process of much hull repair/painting.
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Update...
She's about 95% complete. Once we got it all stripped down, it wasn't as bad as we thought. Still a lot work. Fun project. For an '83, I think she's as close to new as one can get.

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Looking good. I especially like the helm station. BTW - what are the two grey boxes (one below the helm and the other towards the port)?
 
Wow! :shock: Slick job. Kudos to you. I have to agree; the helm station setup is SO much more modern, clean and efficient. Nice. 8) Looks fantastic. :thup
 
ferret30":13cam41n said:
Wow! Are you absolutely sure it's the same boat? :) Did you make the helm thingy? Very impressive!
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Thank you. Yes we made the dash and used all the original equipment that came with boat.
 
Spectacular work! That is a really nice job.

I saw your boat in the Petersburg harbor in June on our Inside Passage trip. I hope you got some on-the-water enjoyment before you hauled it out to do all that work. I know the weather up there this fall has been ridiculous with some brutal winds and a record rainfall in September. (For those who have never spent time in Petersburg, the words "record rainfall" may not carry quite the weight due them.)

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I look forward to seeing the "new" boat next time I'm up.
 
So did you have to rebuild the transom and put new plywood inside, or is the new plank spanning the transom reinforcing the weakened transom? Or was it actually ok?
 
Nice job. What did you find in the transom--and why the decision to sister it with a board inside the transom, vs rebuilding the transom.
 
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