Resto long deck Biesemeyer

So this passed spring i took my old Biesemeyer to Norco, Ca. to Stew at Tracer Marine. This old girl was in pretty bad shape, the balsa floors were rotten to the piot of decentagration, the bulk heads and dash had moss growing out of them, and the stringers were twisted. This hull had never been rigged, no holes in dash, stringers , or transom (other than drains). Someone had drilled the holes for a drag style strut and cut the hole for the prop shaft (no hole for the rudder box). She sat outside for what looks like most of her life. With out further ado, here ya go. Hope you like, thanks Trevor. :drool:drool:drool

 

more before pics

 

Thanks, the things people do. :boo: Well with any luck and time, i should have her together for new years day weekend at CFW this year. I have some parts gathered up; v-drive, rudder box, steering post w/ windshield, 1" prop strut, double drop threw fin, some cav plate hard wear, skid fins, and a bunch of misc. fittins and ss bolts.

Oh and some more pics

 

A few more pics of the under side of the deck.

 

After all that crap was removed, Stew laid a layer of cloth and then the strong back down the center of the deck, battens for the gunnel under the deck, and a nice coat of black gel . I had him do acouple of thing diffrent that by my reasoning would be better. I had him add a solid 1\2" x 6" oak dash backing instead of ply wood. MY exeriance is that over the years plywood kinda smashes because i ts not very dense. Im always tightening my steering post on my cole. I also had him leave off most of the wood around the dack along with the foam that was down the center tring to lighten this thing up.

 

There was some funky business happening at the bow, lots of glass globbed around the bow eye. You can see the floors were pretty bad.

 

The removal of the stringers, and the bulkheads.

 

So after the stringers and the bulkheads were removed and cleand out, next was the floors and all the old water soaked, delaminated fiberglass was ground out.

 

Thanks guys, shes almost finished as far as the hull goes. I should have her back home in about a month, and start the rigging.

vd cruiser ya it would have been cheaper to buy a new hull, but let me know where to find a long deck Biesemeyer brand new. I dont believe anyone make this hull any more. I have not seen any one with the molds for a old style long deck. These have different gunnels and decks than the new ones do. Im not sure, but i think they were only made for a couple of years (70-71?) Since this one has never been rigged, i have thought about making a splash of it though.

 

After all the bad glass was removed from the floor, the transom was cut to relieve it for straitening. The two bottom pics are backwards. Since there was so much material removed form the inside, a small dam was built as a mold to build up the cav/blast plate recess area. Once the new floors are in they will get a couple more layers of glass on top of that.

 

Next the strong bacl was installed, and then the new stringers

 

Now that the stringers were in place, time for the balsa core floors to laid in.

 

Thanks cruiser, the hull is getting so close. Cant wait to get it home,and start the rigging. I think Im going to do most of the rigging before i flow coat the floors and paint the hull.

Any how here is some more pics to keep you all salivating like me. Here all the wood has now been covered in glass

 

Well folks its been a while since ive been on here. Work has progressed, and i moved to idaho 3 years ago. So with out further ado here are some more up to date pics.

 

Pics of the floor

 

All capped and in primer

 

Back on the trailer ready to head home.

 

Blue printing the bottom.

 

First coat of primer after blue printing. So i had Stu remove the two strakes and make it a four straker.

 

Here are some drawing of how i would like the paint to turn out,mbut havent decided on the color yet. I was thinking of a white or bright orange base with the center stipes being black w/ red pearl tap fades over the black.

 

The stringers were cut to fit the bottom, lay down glass mat 2" wde full lenghth of stringer w/ heavy resin and build jig to hold in place and to set weights on, glass over stringers acouple of times, lay down more matting w/ heavy resin lay down balsa, add weights, then glass over all.

 

Built a set clam shells for the strut,

 

A couple more pics

 

Glelcoater yeah it Stu Sutherland who did all the resto work and the bottom.

 

Sherpa cutting the deck off is easy part, but befor you remove the stringers make sure the bottom of hull is braced/ supported so tha it dose not change when you pull the stringers out. The hull will flex a little with no bracing (stringers) in it, so you need to be able to keep the shape while workin in it. I think there some pics of it sitting on a dolly with block underneath to support the shape in this thread.

 

Sorry for not having many up dates on the boat, up its cold out side and no garage to work in. I was able to build a new part, didn't really like any of the options out there for the calvplate rod transome fitting so I made one that I thought looks pretty bitchen.

 

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