[quote=piatro]Nice, glad to see this and I could totally relate. I went thru this hmmmm not 2 years ago in my 5.2 restoration. Not exactly what you have but rather the cracks around the bolts up top and had cracked down to bottom of well.
Once I got going, had some tunes going, had a plan, it took me a day or two, mostly to wait in between fiber applications for res to dry. Go slow, start coarse, make it stronger than original, think multiple fiber applications, keep going till it looks as good as you'd like. You might discover exactly how much you love this boat in this part of the job.
Once demo was done and the edges were clean, I started inside with a big flat piece of 1 inch closed cell foam that I had laying around from a shipment or something. Figured out how to jam it up against the inside part of the damage and prop there.
I disassembled and took foam back to work bench, add a layer of wax paper over the foam, cut the first piece of cloth and lay on wax paper, mix first batch of res, soak edges of cloth on the wax paper (I found large areas are easier to cross if I don't put heavy res in the middle of the cloth that is just hanging out in space), pick whole piece of foam/wax/cloth/res and re-position and prop in the inside of the hull. Should go quick as you'd already worked out how to prop it in there... so prop it in there.
For me this was the hardest park and also because this had to be done thru a port hole. Everything was easier and down hill after that. One can also put a string thru the foam/wax/cloth/res layers with a stick or something on the inside so when installing, pulling on the string outside of the hull will help hold the mass there while the other hand (in the port hole) grabs the prop and jams it in there.
For the tube bed, I followed 'This Side Up' video/pics and filled in with globs of filler, then a layer of wax paper, then laid the tube into the bed as would be final assembly. Once dried that tube has such good contact with the hull I've often thought about doing all the others like that. I'm guessing the stresses are better distributed in that area because of the perfect fit.
In any case looking forward to more posts![/quote]
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