Alright after the madness that was the holidays, bunch of upgrades to my sand car, and painting my house, it's back to work and time to boogie on this thing if I'm going to have it done in time for the season.
First up was to fill all these old rigging holes. I'm focusing on the exterior of the boat, the transom, and the splash well first. I need to get the transom painted so I can hang the motor and not have it sitting on the pallet in the driveway any longer. I used west systems epoxy and micro balloons to fill in all of these old holes. There was a lot of them.
Once those were all setup I came back and sanded everything down
Instead of going with brass tubes again I decided to do glass drain tubes. I started with a piece of PVC an 1/8" smaller than the drain holes. Wrapped it in wax paper, then 3 layers of 1708 wrapped in opposite directions with epoxy in between each.
Once that setup I covered it in fairing compound to get it to the exact diameter of the drain holes.
Cut them to size and they are a perfect fit. Ill seal them in place with some epoxy mixed with a tad of west systems 410, and some chop strand matte. Once the plugs are in place the transom and splash well as well as the exterior of the boat will get a final fairing and it'll be ready for Interlux primer.
Also decided to go ahead and pull the bow railing off. Going to custom weld one up and paint it black to see how I like it.