Whaler

[Sailfish_WC]

Wasn’t sure where to put this. Figured it’s fishing related
I don’t want to call it a Whaler restoration
The boy and I are just going to make a functional hull

1965 13’ Boston Whaler.
Prior owner sealed up the bow locker, glassed in 3 chunks of wood on the deck for a helm and poling platform.
Then the entire boat is rolled with what I suspect is 15 coats of gel coat

The start 8 days ago


The boy scraping the easy stuff (sitting on what should be the bow locker)


Pressure washed helped a ton on the non-skid


The locker revealed!


He’s happy it’s in decent shape. He was hoping we would be able to bring back the mahogany hatch

[Sailfish_WC]

We started with the grinding

It’s going to be quite tedious and time consuming so there won’t be a ton of progress pics

Hard at work



And then, last night him and his buddy went shark fishing, but the boy opted to go oyster diving instead.
Now my laborer is out a solid week or so



No sutures luckily. But lots of debris removal and irrigating
Hopefully no infections.

Luckily we aren’t on any timeline.

[Mgaspari]

Hopefully he doesn’t get any infections!
Maybe he should move to a more supervisory role on the project

[Sailfish_WC]

Hopefully he doesn’t get any infections!
Maybe he should move to a more supervisory role on the project

Lol

I have to say, he had been driving me and himself to get this done. I was impressed. I would be inside working (work work) he’d go outside , a bit later come and get me to show me what he did on his own.

Funny how motivated one of today’s kids can be

[muddy]

Major project, very cool, very fun.

[matt1336]

Motivated kids make me happy!!! Nice job!!

[greenhorndave]

I like it!

Looking forward to seeing the progress. I admit that I would probably stay away from such a basket case, so I’m interested to see how it goes.

[Moose]

Great project! Looking forward to seeing update pictures of your progress!