old boat

[okie2hd]

Just bought an old glass airboat with a Continental(90hp?),new prop,trailer,spare for $800.00.
Good deal on the surface,but on the way home a stringer cracked,the polymer broke at the nose,etc.
My question is can I remove the polymer, reskin the bottom with glass to cover the holes, patch the cracked stringer and still run this hull?

 

[c chardt]

Yes you can fix it but is it worth it. you have to grind all the paint, gell coat off and put new matt and resin and you have to grind between every layer or it will not hold!!! and the price of material and the amount of labor just might be better to get a new glass hull then you know what you have.

 

[Daddy Dave]

Usually, if a fiberglass hull gets brittle, it's an endless process of patch this, then that.

If your engine is a good one - check the compression - then, maybe take that motor and put it on a new small hull. They are pretty inexpensive. Gilileo and Predator make excellent small hulls that you can grow with.

Here's the thing. If that old hull picks a bad place to take the big dump, then it could become a total loss - or, worse. I've got a Cont. 90 that I've been waiting on a good used hull for - for almost 2 years. They are tough to find.