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Did you find any adhesive holding the lapstrake together or was it all gone? Mine still had spots of adhesive beween the lapstrakes, althought 60/90 percent had failed. I used a hack sawblade, to remove the few spots of adhesive still holding. You will find it is hard to loose shape of the hull and ...

I was able to use a very sharp ice pick under the nail head and pry them out. Insead of a chisel, I used a thin hank saw blade to cut nails. If you reuse transom,soak nail and screw holes with cpes. I did not make patterns of each lapstrake, but might to good for the furture, if you have to replace ...

1. Boat was set on cinder blocks and carefully levaled. Started very slowly, and became more confident as time passed. All but the inner keel was reused, so when reassembling the new screws were put back in the old holes, making it difficult to lose shape. 2. I did not remove top lapstrake as I did ...

Steve Was in your shoes back in 2003 with my 1960 16' Cruiser's 202. Instead of scrafting ribs, I constructed a new inner keel 2' wider and cut off the ribs ends about 1". worked very well. I found it so easy to remove the garwood, I ended up removing all the lapstrats except the top. I even di...

I thought I saw a scarf joint in the plywood lapstrake on my 1960 Cruisers 16' 202. Did Cruiser's use scrafted plywood or was it full length without scrafted joints. If it was scarfed from the plywood supplier, what was the angle of the scraf 8 to 1 or 12 to 1? If anyone has afactory piece of scraft...

Michael

You had the best 25, same as my 1981 Evinrude 25. Lots of power, maybe you had a large 16' fishing bost, mine is a 250 pound flat bottom jon boat, really not that much smaller than my Cruiser 202 at 650 pounds.

How fast will your 3 cyl 75 push your boat?

Jim

If you used the trailer to help pull the bottom straight by drilling thru the keelsom and pulling the bottom past straight and then sistering a larger keelsom to it would probably work.

Your 1975 Evinrude 75 is a 3 cyl looper, with great performance and fuel economy, probably 1/2 the fuel of a old V4 75hp. It's weight is about 202 pounds listed for a 1975 Johnson 70hp, the 75 listest is the high performance model. What performance do you see, how about the old engine it replaced an...

Jim I read somewhere about placing your wood boat on blocks in a garage and jacking against the ceiling to deform it back into shape, my beam idea does the same without jacking against the ceiling. My proposed beam has curved so the bottom can be deformed into a hook, and with spring back would be s...

From the catalogs found at www.old-omc.de the weight of a 1960 Johnson long shaft is 220# and the 40 electric is 141# Weight is still in reason for any of the engines you are considering, The weights for the Merc 4 strokes include gas lift and power trim for the 50 hp. Probably not much difference i...

I do own a 1960 Cruisers Inc 202. I own both a 1960 Evinrude 75 and 40 hp. The 40 has never not been able to get on plane, a very good match for the hull. I get 25 to 28 miles per 6 gal tank with the 40 and 11 to 18 with the 75. I run my 1960 Evinrude 40 on my 16' jon boat also, it pushes it 35 mph ...

I would bolt an 6" I beam with about an inch of deflection on top of keel and slowly tighten it over 6 months or more till you have a rocker rather than a hook in the bottom. Keeping the inside of the boat wet might help as you slowly pull out the hook.

sounds like bow steer, bottom needs to be flat for at least 5 or 6 feet.

do you have a picture of what you are looking for?

I would sugest 5 guys instead of steel cable, which may ding the hull as it turns past 90 degrees. If you do use cables, I still would have 5 or 6 guys to help just in case it gets hung up.