Recent content by Noah Shaver

Between other obligations on the weekends and the rain we have gotten about every afternoon for the past week, I haven't touched the boat since I posted the last update. I did place a US Composites order yesterday though, so I will have all materials needed on hand soon.

He said he ended up going through something like 65 Locks

Not sure if anyone else has been following along with Robert, but last night he completed the Great Loop in 19 days, 13 Hours, and 1 Minute, breaking not only the Solo record, but the Crew record as well. Mr. Youens tackled this 6,000 mile journey in a 1648 Weldbilt Jon Boat with a 60HP Tohatsu...

John, it was built in 1993. The fella I bought it from bought it brand new. I have the original pink purchase receipt at home. I think he paid somewhere in the neighborhood of $2500-$3000 for it brand new. Edit: I have it here at work actually. I was wrong on all counts. Boat was $4520 brand...

That is great information, thanks guys! Picked up a crucial piece to the reconstruction puzzle this afternoon. Very lucky to find Coosa this close to home.

Thoughts on replacing balsa core in a floor with Coosa board? I had planned on repairing my TDB floor with Divinycell or a similar foam core product. The transom and motor board I planned to use coosa board. I was lucky enough to find a local dealer for Coosa products that had 3/4" in stock...

A little progress update. The balsa core floor demo is complete! Man I won't miss that a bit. Finished that up early Saturday morning and decided to go ahead and remove the motor board and tear into the transom. This transom felt rock solid, but as I tore it apart I could see that it was...

I wish I could talk to the fella that hand laid that CSM in the floor with little to no overlap and give him a piece of my mind :LOL: All jokes, mostly. We sure have came a long way in materials and construction methods in the last 30+ years, and I understand at that point in time this was the...

Steve, what I suspect is that the balsa core material that TDB used had a Scrim cloth on the backside (floor side) holding it together. They simply shot their chopper gun over this with chopped strand to create a CSM layer over the scrim cloth. Very very thin overall glass layer on the floor side