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Log in. Install the app. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Motor mount construction - which wood and orientation is best. Thread starter oldshore Start date May 21, Status Not open for further replies. Joined Jun 10, Messages My question is regarding rebuilding wood motor mounts.
I realize working with plywood is easier to shape. Each piece cut separately then laminated. Which will Small Wooden Motor Boat For Sale Free hold the lag bolts the best? Are all acceptable? What wood would you use for option 3 I have a 23' Chris Craft Lancer project boat. The deck is fiberglass. The motor mounts are wood cored and the wood is rotten. Thanks very much, I have recently been lurking here, reading and watching most of Friscoboater's videos and learning a lot.
Bomber Goober Petty Officer 2nd Class. Joined Dec 28, Messages Re: Motor mount construction - which wood and orientation is best Option 2 would be my vote and how I have seen most guys do it. GT Rear Admiral. Joined Jul 13, Messages 4, Joined May 24, Messages 46, It's the strongest method. Re: Motor mount construction - which wood and orientation is best Thanks for your suggestions.
Flat stack it will be. Securing motor mounts Securing motor mounts Boat is a Chris Craft Lancer with structural fiberglass stringers, going from about 3" wide to 6" wide for a 2 foot run where motor mounts are located. I removed the top of the fiberglass over the rotted wood motor mounts so the vertical sides remain. The replacement wood will probably be approx. Am I correct? Joined Oct 25, Messages 23, It's the bedding that prevents the hard edge of a stringer from unevenly point loading the hull The spacers are only to allow you to fill in below the stringer.
Are you coating the interior faces of the verticals as well to adhere them to the new wood? Lwarden Petty Officer 1st Class. Joined Jun 22, Messages Re: Motor mount construction - which wood and orientation is best oldshore said:.
Re: Motor mount construction - which wood and orientation is best Stringers are about 4" thick and widen to about 6" in area of motor mounts. They are at least 5" high. There is NO filler of any kind in any of the stringers anywhere in boat, except for a block of wood about 30" long 3" thick and 4" high. The base is cut at an angle to conform with the hull so the outboard side is about 2" thick.
The wood only comes in contact with fiberglass on it's top and inboard side side closest to the midline. After 44 years the wood mahogany was free floating - not attached anywhere. Half of it was rotted. This is not typical construction as far as I have seen on this website. I have decided to replace the wood with a solid piece of wood shaped to fit as best as possible, saturated in epoxy and bedded in an epoxy peanut butter. The top would then be reglassed. Plywood and lam wood are both options but I can't see either of these being superior to a solid block of hardwood.
Anyone disagree? I was going to take pix but I stepped on my camera in the boat and crushed it! Stringers are about 4" thick and widen to about 6" in area of motor mounts. Re: Motor mount construction - which wood and orientation is best Boats are just plastic and wood, and lag bolts hold good enough for the life expectancy of the average boat years? Ideally I would like an imbeded piece of stainless steel or titanium to attach to. Totally unrealistic. If bolts came through the metal, threads up, that would work out great until the the bolt loosened or the threads got damaged.
How would we replace the bolts? We really need a metal framed boat - like a car - where bolts for motor mounts are accessible and replaceable. Now we are getting into a whole Wooden Motor Boat For Sale Uk different animal. We are stuck with lag bolts. Or an aluminum boat??
Boats are just plastic and wood, and lag bolts hold good enough for the life expectancy of the average boat years? Re: Motor mount construction - which wood and orientation is best Nothing like the sexy swooping lines of an aluminum boat Well maybe for a work boat I suppose. Ned L Commander. Joined Sep 17, Messages 2, They do not apply to inboards. The motor mounts on an inboard have a very different job to do. Torque forces transmitted directly to the transom.
Little to no torque on mounts. Just my two cents. Can anyone comment on this? Re: Motor mount construction - which wood and orientation is best Evenly distributed among all mounting points Sit in your car, put it in drive, hold the brake pedal down and press the gas In your boat, remove one of the motor mounts, not really, don't do it, could cause damage, and rev the engine, the torque created by the engine will try to lift it off the mount and if done enough, could create a lot of damage
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