Long time no post!

[QuarterHorse]

What's up fellas!? I know most of you wander over to S&F but it's always nice to be on a HS forum. Been super busy this spring with fixing the delaminated Vector. If you hadn't seen it, April this year the boat delam'd on me due to the obvious rotten core. It all makes sense since I've experienced one now but it was getting awful to drive and I knew set up shouldn't have been THAT difficult.

Couple shots of the rotten floor/core and delam



Thrashed and basically lived in the garage in my little townhouse for a while and got it done by June 15th. No core, just stringers now. Added a layer of 1708 once the core was out to add thickness/strength to the hull before putting the stringers in. It hadn't fully cured so the stringers were bedded into the glass.

Had to go out of town the following weekends for vacations and had the boat drags to do June 28th to make so seat time was minimal by the time I made it out there. Ran LR2 and had a blast. The boat has seen 86 on the GPS so far and I'm shooting for 90 with this box stock XRi. I think the added weight of the "lake friendly" interior/stereo is hindering that goal though.

Here are a few current shots





Got a few vids with the Go Pro yesterday but stray wakes and an extra body/cooler/fuel kept me from breaking 80 on the lake. Back to the river on a light load and we'll see if I can eek out 90 soon before I succom to just cranking the HP up

[jacklake2003]

Very interesting! So when did the delamination occur, during a high speed pass? Was it slow or gradual (I think I know the answer)? How did the boat react once the delamination occured? I assume it stayed bottom down?

I agree with your stratedgy of repair- extra glass and stringers, no core. I did something similar on my Viper.

Keep us posted! -Chris

[jacklake2003]

Also, Altoona sounds familiar. My wife has family in Prairie City, Iowa and her Grandfather works at Prairie Meadows; seems like one of those is close to Altoona. Where around there do you run the Stream?

[jacklake2003]

And one more thing, can you post some pics of your build (new stringers, etc.)? Thanks -Chris

[RussF]

Dustin, I 've been watchin over on S$F....you have done a GREATTTTTTTTTTTTTT job with the boat....niceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[YDOC462]

Looks great man! Glad you got her back on the water! My project had slowed up I'm hoping to get it wet by august.
How did your back seat come out? I thought I seen you starting one on s&f

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[QuarterHorse]

Not sure when the de-lam happened. I was making passes on the river and had it beached. I went to push off and found water in the boat by the fuel cells which wasn't normal. Flew back to the ramp and then found it.

Altoona, Iowa is where Prairie Meadows is at. I normally boat on the Des Moines River or Saylorville Lake.

I'll see if I can get some photos snapped of the bench seat and my stringer set up for everybody.

If I end up doing this again I know I can do it WAY better than this one turned out. I was just under a DUMB time crunch so I short cutted my own ideas and am not the happiest about it, but she's flying away right now.

[QuarterHorse]

Well for some reason I can't find a lot of my pics. Here are how my center stringers/knees started out anyway. I built "wings" off the sides and tied them in with "outrigger" strakes at the edge of the boat.

[QuarterHorse]

Lots of cardboad templates for the rear bench







It holds me fine and I'm about 265 lol

[QuarterHorse]

Didn't turn out awful for somebody who doesn't do this kind of work