[stephen low]

Paul & Dimi

Nothing dry about the rot that was there, every piece of timber was thoroughly soaked, wet and crumbling from extended immersion. The ply was delaminating or rotten mostly.

But the construction is timber insertion into a fibreglass mould ie the laminated glass hull, so the foundation to it all is untouched and the new timber just brings back all the torional strength and rigidity except of course that the transom can now carry a heavy outboard safely again.

Thanks for the correction too on hull style naming though in my mind I had the right shapes described at least.

Not too difficult a job as it is all sheet plywood I simply need to cut to shape or size. Using 15mm generally but added a 17mm layer for transom strength, though there was an intermediate fibreglass layer I couldn't replicate. Don't see this as detracting from the 32mm laminate though.

The storage area is in one of my company's yards and was the drop off point when the boat arrived on the back of a truck from Qld.

And now as of yesterday's club AGM I can can call myself Ex-Commodore so hopefully I'll have a lot more time to play with my real toy once I finish up on this boat project!!

Though I do look forward to relaunching the V17 as I too have heard the shape is a legend in terms of classic boat shapes. Was why I sourced the hull style, just chose very badly.

Time and effort will fix all this.

Cheers