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Dan, Wow, your group sure does some nice work, and quickly too. A couple follow up questions about the seams, if I might. When you say you reef them out do you first loosen any of the fasteners, or do you leave them alone and get the paint out/off as best you can? If you leave the seams tightened up...

So... yesterday I got to thinking after stripping off all this paint that what I should have done while the boat was still painted, upright and on the trailer is go dunk it in the lake so I could try to see where the water was coming in. Given the fact that the outer keel and stem and the aluminum c...

Andreas: Thanks for the info on the checking and epoxy sealers. Peter: I know what you mean about the heat gun and old wood -- I have spent many a summer afternoon behind a heat gun and scraper taking lead-based paint off my house trim and windows. Nothing smells like summer to me quite like the acr...

Peter, I know that feeling of not meeting your own goals -- I'm sorry you didn't get to your boat last winter. You could join me in flailing about half a continent away. Here's what I managed to uncover with a heat gun and random orbital sander yesterday before my daughter's soccer game intervened: ...

Well, eight months later and I am ready to start work on the boat in earnest. The first step was to recruit the guests from my neighbors' Fourth of July party to help flip the boat over onto a cradle I built for it: http://www.phys.uwosh.edu/rioux/boats/runabout/thompson_22.jpg Looks funny upside do...

Hmmm, looks like I am going to have to reinstall the wood burning stove the previous owners took out of my garage if I am to have any hope of keeping up with you guys. Good luck on your projects.

Dennis

Andreas, Joe & Peter,

Thanks for the ideas and the history/background. It'll be spring before I can do much of anything (other than get the motor off the transom, of course), but, yes, I am inspired.

Dennis

Thanks, everyone, for the replies. I, of course, just started firing off questions without first looking to see what has already been discussed here. Off to the archives...

Dennis

Here's a shot of the trailer (with Neighbor Andy's trucks and garage in the background). I can probably rig some fore-n-aft bunks using the rearmost cross piece and the two angled pieces of channel that run up past the existing bunks. But the advice is to extend bunks back past the current location ...

Peter, Thanks for the note. I have read some accounts on WoodenBoat forum of the hook that can develop over time on these boats from weight hanging off the transom. Seems to result in some undesirable "porpoising" characteristics that are near-impossible to fix without a major rebuild of t...

Andreas, Thanks for the reply. I'll go with your Sea Coaster designation -- further searching on the web turns up some boats that look similar. In any case, it's a relief to know the outer keel piece is supposed to end where it does because without plans or drawings available it'd sure be hard to ge...

Good morning, Yesterday we finally got my father-in-law's Thompson down from the garage where it had been hanging upside down for 30+ years. There is a Peshtigo builder's plate on the dash without a serial number and the OBC plate is missing. The hull ID on the transom is G60801S which I think I kno...