I was in the middle of working on a clapped out square when I finally found a RN hull for sale. This was Rosner’s ski and so it had definitely been ridden hard. It has destroyers, a low profile hood, and some reinforcement. Plan is to wide tray, clean up, paint, and surf.
I met Chris locally on Nov 29th and struck a deal.
I immediately started tearing off the old rotted turf, and the 9 million old stickers that were on the ski.
Judging by the quick repairs on the sides and the screws and silicone in the transom, I knew I’d be defoaming. I cut out the tray, dug the foam out and then pressure washed out what was left. I then reinforced both sides of the tray.
Then I grabbed the Multitool with the little grout blade and ground a reveal on the edge of the wide tray for turf.
I planned to reuse the tray floor but it was cracking and delaminating so I cut out a piece of steel, put it in the press brake and formed a kicker to use as a mold.
Before I tab in the new floor, I wanted to glass over the pump inserts and I want the floor to sit right on the pump tunnel. I ground off the old adhesive and did 3 layers of 7oz and epoxy. This should keep the pump bolts from leaking into the tray.
Then it was time to tackle the exhaust tube, and plumbing for dual cooling. The exhaust was corroded from a crack in the side of the ski and the salt water sat on the aluminum. I welded it, smoothed it, and plated it with new sheet metal. I posted that in the fab section so check that out if you want. Since I did all that I decided to cut off the exhaust flange and make a new one from scratch. I modeled it after something.
Then it was time to tackle the cracked nose. I ground the crack from the bottom, filled it with thickened epoxy and strips of 7oz cloth. Then covered the area with 7oz. Flipped the ski, ground down to the new glass and then repeated the process.
I then sanded and faired with total fair epoxy filler. This stuff is awesome. You can also see that I had some chucks on each side of the pole area to repair. The total fair handled this super well.
I met Chris locally on Nov 29th and struck a deal.
I immediately started tearing off the old rotted turf, and the 9 million old stickers that were on the ski.
Judging by the quick repairs on the sides and the screws and silicone in the transom, I knew I’d be defoaming. I cut out the tray, dug the foam out and then pressure washed out what was left. I then reinforced both sides of the tray.
Then I grabbed the Multitool with the little grout blade and ground a reveal on the edge of the wide tray for turf.
I planned to reuse the tray floor but it was cracking and delaminating so I cut out a piece of steel, put it in the press brake and formed a kicker to use as a mold.
Before I tab in the new floor, I wanted to glass over the pump inserts and I want the floor to sit right on the pump tunnel. I ground off the old adhesive and did 3 layers of 7oz and epoxy. This should keep the pump bolts from leaking into the tray.
Then it was time to tackle the exhaust tube, and plumbing for dual cooling. The exhaust was corroded from a crack in the side of the ski and the salt water sat on the aluminum. I welded it, smoothed it, and plated it with new sheet metal. I posted that in the fab section so check that out if you want. Since I did all that I decided to cut off the exhaust flange and make a new one from scratch. I modeled it after something.
Then it was time to tackle the cracked nose. I ground the crack from the bottom, filled it with thickened epoxy and strips of 7oz cloth. Then covered the area with 7oz. Flipped the ski, ground down to the new glass and then repeated the process.
I then sanded and faired with total fair epoxy filler. This stuff is awesome. You can also see that I had some chucks on each side of the pole area to repair. The total fair handled this super well.
