1965 Lonestar Mustang 15' Rebuild Help

Questions about boat repairs with our resins and fiberglass: hull patches, transoms and stringers, foam, rot etc.
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Re: 1965 Lonestar Mustang 15' Rebuild Help

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Here is my dilema: I cannot give advice on how to do somethign that i do not think should not be done. So when I offer some bit of advise on prepping for pour foam, if your using it to rebuild way I would not advise, then Im stuck. If I answer the questio, its leads to more questions.

This forum works best when we can tell you how to rebuild the boat in a way that is stronger or as strong as it was when it was new, using material that will make it last a lot longer than the first build did. We will do all of that using the methods we know will work. What we cant do is answer a lot of speculative questions that lead to more questions on how to fix something that would not be an issue if we had started from scratch with "our" plan

If you are going to re-build the way it was originally built, then that is a decent plan. It might not be how I would have originally done it, but it worked. Replace original locations and thicknesses, you can make stiffeners taller if you want, no harm. If you want to rebuild using our preferred method of a box system of stringers/frames then we can help on that too. Once you decide on how you want to go, lets delete all the other threads and start fresh. :)

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Re: 1965 Lonestar Mustang 15' Rebuild Help

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Thanks Shine - I think the part that gets missed is that the factory original build was essentially as a surfboard - no internal structural members whatsoever - it was nothing but a fiberglass hull, foampack and epoxy/gelcoated floor. That is the original design which I don't intend to duplicate!

What the pictures show is the result of a previous rebuild. The resurrection/modification of salvageable aspects of that rebuild plus foampack and meranti sole seemed to me a pragmatic "improvement" for a boat that never had any internal structural pieces at all.

We can close the thread and start over as I'm willing to consider the work involved in stripping the hull clean again!

Thanks, D.

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