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TOPIC: 1959 Glastron Seaflite

Re:1959 Glastron Seaflite 11 years 5 months ago #70014

Wow, great progress! Keep it up.

Bob

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The weather gods have no shined brightly on this project in the last few weeks. I need to put a couple layers of fiberglass on the transom to call it done and we are getting rain every 2-3 days. Thought this week would be good, but no go.

Did finally remove all of the floor. I think that this boat had been stored bow down for a significant period of time. The plywood near the front where the V forms with the stringers had rotted to the point of becoming dirt. There was also a good pile of silt in the center section. Need to get a power washer and really clean out all the remaining loose crap. Maybe I can get the plywood, cut the floor pieces and epoxy them before I have to put it away for the season.
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1959 Glastron Seaflite
1959 Tomahawk Spirit

Re:1959 Glastron Seaflite 11 years 5 months ago #70956

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Tod, great progress. Sounds like the PO just let the boat sit on the trailer without any tongue jack or blocking.

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Re:1959 Glastron Seaflite 11 years 5 months ago #70957

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It wasn't the immediate PO; he had tried to stabilize it before he sold it (he found another boat he would rather do). As I mentioned earlier, this boat was last registered in Los Angeles in 1969, from then until 2010 when it was retrieved from a vacant lot in Danbury, CT, who knows what happened or how many owners it had. If you look at the attached pic, you will see a dark line on an angle in the bow. This was probably the water level and it was like that for some time. How these things survive is sometimes amazing
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