Deep in 84 Grady rebuild

[jaw9493]

Well, I posted here a few months ago about my new project. Got sidetracked with knee surgery and recovery and am now well into rebuilding my 84 22' tournament. Boat was stringer drive. Demoed floor, transom, removed tank (95 gal). Removed 6' of inside stringers, 3' stud outer stringer, 5' port outside stringer, 2 bulkheads and engine mounts etc right down to the tank support pads. Removed all rigging, wiring, foam. Ground more glass than I ever thought, this is my first attempt at fiberglass repair. Left outer skin on transom, added total of 2 layers fir plywood, 5 layers 1.5 oz mat, 3 layers 1708 cloth. Spliced in 4 new stringers, bedded in structural putty, and double tabbed with 1708. Cut cap off transom before I started to rebuild it, so had to tie gunnels back in with a custom stern fish box similar to sport fisher style. All is coming together real nice in my opinion, lots of time and bud lite. Somewhere in there I bought a 2005 275 verado with all controls etc to put on this thing. That's where I am, needing a bracket for engine (30" setback, 14 degree). I will order one from A & J marine in few days if nothing pops up. I am very open to any advice, criticism, etc from knowledgeable people. I have a load of pics on my phone from all phases so far. Can anyone tell me a way to get them posted on here?

Thanks, Wes.

 

[Andrew93]

I love seeing the rebuild photos, I would love to tackle one someday but afraid my ADHD will kick in and have an unfinished project. Hats off to you guys that get them done!

I use photobucket.com but there are others too. Upload the photos there and then copy and paste the IMG code into the post and they should appear. Looking forward to seeing the build!

Andrew

 

[jaw9493]

I'm going to try that. Thanks

 

[Lt.Mike]

One more thing on the photos, you may want to resize them before you upload them to photo bucket.
You can do editing there and its not hard but I find it easier to resize them with microsoft paint. Either way, MS paint or with photo bucket, it goes the same way. If you want to crop the photo to cut out what isn't what you want to show do that first. Then to resize, choose pixels, enter 550 in place of the largest number. That seems to come out about right when you post pictures.
Looking forward to seeing what you've done. :mrgreen:
Mike.

 

[jaw9493]

Been trying with photobucket with no luck yet. Still working on it. I hate technology

 

[jaw9493]

Well, I have photobucket uploading 168 photos now. I loaded them to "my bucket" . Where do I find the img code?

 

[Andrew93]

The easiest way to share a high volume of photos may be to share the link to the entire album. To select some photos to inbed go the photo itself in photobucket and on the right side there should be 4 different codes. Copy the IMG and paste it here and when you select preview post the photo should appear.

There might be other ways but that's how I have always done it

 

[jaw9493]

Ok, I finally got the link to my photobucket page so here it is. http://s1172.photobucket.com/user/wesjones9493/library/. There is no period at the end of that, don't know why it just appears. Someone please let me know that you were able to see pics as this took an act of god to figure out. Thanks for the technical help. There are a lot of pics, some good, some not. The order may be kind of out of wack but you guys can figure that out. Let me have some input. Just picked up an Armstrong bracket from another member, thanks Brian. Look forward to hearing from you all.