has anyone every replaced the floor in a CAJUN Rickey Green Fishing Machine? i really need some pointers the only way i see to do it would be to split the top cap and i really dont wanna do that. does anyone know of a better way?
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has anyone every replaced the floor in a CAJUN Rickey Green Fishing Machine? i really need some pointers the only way i see to do it would be to split the top cap and i really dont wanna do that. does anyone know of a better way?
I looked at your profile to try and see a picture of your boat, then clicked to see posts by you in hopes you had a picture in another post. You asked the same question 7 months ago! Git her done, man.
You can do it most likely without removing the cap. Every boat is different, but there seem to be a lot of similarities in Bass-Boat designs in the 70s and 80s.
I am redoing a Ranger from 1976 and chose not to remove the cap to replace the plywood/fiberglass deck, and stringers. (I had 1 bad stringer, but ended up replacing them all so I could improve the way the water drains into the bilge, and to lay down a skin of fiberglass/epoxy to the hull) Just from looking at a lot of bassboat pictures & the way they were built, the biggest source of water infiltration is where the lip of the top section is screwed into the plywood decking, all around the perimeter & around the console.
I have been lax on posting pics, but will try to take some soon. (When you are gittin-er-done, you dont have time to be taking pictures & all the B.S. involved in putting them on the PC, resizing them, posting them, etc.)
I have read a lot of material on many websites, and ran across a bunch on info about how important it is to support the hull when doing floor/structural repairs, and horror stories of people that pulled the top, did their work, and couldnt get the top back on because the boat changed from not supporting the hull. Leaving the cap on if you can reduces those chances tremendously, in my opinion.First think you need to do is this:
Get a sawzall, skil saw, jigsaw, a grinder with a thin disc, big shop vac, dust masks, gloves, safety glasses, various prying/scraping implements. A cheap gasket scraper came in handier on many occasions for me.
Cut out the carpet, Start cutting into the floor and see what the boat is made of & what the damage is, and by then I will have some pics hopefully that I can share how I did my boat.
(Im not done, but have stringers, foam, decking done...Ran out of materials, have to wait on UPS man for a couple days)
well i would do that BUT the top cap covers the whole floor. i was just wondering if anyone has dont it to the RGFM boats
oh and the only reason i haent dont it yet is because i havent had the $$$
I marked a line about 1" above the floor all the way around, and cut that out & saved it, it will get glassed back in last. Mine had a lip that screwed into the floor. Its either pull the top, or do surgery on it and glass it back in after.
I was just kidding around about 'gittin her done', I had watched that Larry the Cable Guy on TV earlier that evening......
Good luck
anyone with RGFM experience?