Thread: 1996 Blazer VL100 Restoration to Crappie Chaser

What you’ve done looks good.

If you ever wonder why a black looking mold seems to appear on the gelcoat in under-deck, bilge areas and the like, it is mold. The wax used to fully cure gelcoat molds. If you wipe it with acetone and clean gelcoat is underneath it's moldy wax. Well I added Duratec's High Gloss Additive to the gelcoat in my floor storage boxes and the shine shown will look this way 10 years later. No wax, No Mold. This is getting SeaDek in the flat areas so I didn't kill myself fairing it out but still didn't want any wax.

Quick update, clamped the first layer of Coosa 26 into the transom with thickened West Systems Epoxy.

Making the post to show using creative clamping, no holes are in the core. No big deal except to give example of thinking out of the box can help in clamping. The doubled 2x6's keep everything nice and square where it counts.

I had to sit and watch for a hour after policing up excess epoxy that kept oozing out.

what would a fella have in a restore of that quality is my question , it sure enough looks right nice so far

Those F clamps / Bessey Clamps come in handy for sure.

Originally Posted by Ketchn

what would a fella have in a restore of that quality is my question , it sure enough looks right nice so far

Bud, I'm less than $5,000 all in. It took 3 years to restore with all the other work in the shop. I had to retire to put it all together. I did a killer Boston Whaler 17 Montauk. It had the 115 2 Stroke on it and the owners of the Whaler didn't want it so they gave it to me. Also the JackPlate is a drop, owner had me install a new one. 3/4 of the Electronics are recycled. I like the older GPS units since their maps have less data they process your position much faster. I don't really need a map just a accurate position. The units drop a waypoint map or not. Running Panoptix instead of Livescope I use 1 Transducer between 2 boats, no GLS10 box needed. The Fiberglass, resin, Epoxy, etc was all here since I replaced rotten Transoms too. Specialized in T-Top Fabrication & Transom Replacement so when I deposited a check it was a good one.

Originally Posted by DockShootinJack

Those F clamps / Bessey Clamps come in handy for sure.

I Just don't know what I would do if someone told me I had to give those clamps up. They make a single pair of hands work like 3 pairs production wise.

Certainly are impressive. Some really insane clamping pressure as well.