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Leslie Transport and Services is undertaking a full restoration to this 1973 Chris Craft Caribbean 35ft. This
will be a fully restored vessel it will have a modern visual appeal with current in-style cabin interior. Rennovations
will include new cabin hard wood flooring, new navigation area, new half hard/half soft dodger, new cockpit pulpit
with integrated seating, new stern pulpit with integrated solar
panels and grill with cleaning station, new stern swim platform, new stainless steel davits, new nonslip deck coating, new windlass, new mast lights, new aft cabin double bed and two single
bunks, bottom job, new auto pilot, new Lexan windows, Corian counter tops, new bilge pumps,
captains chair, new tool-storage closet , new bathroom fixtures, addition of two bow anchor lockers and two bow anchor rollers, rear anchor roller, under water lighting, bow flood lights,,, many more things will be added. I anticipate this will take a full year, I will keep you informed as work proceeds.
Before
Before
Before
Work started
Letting the deck dry before filling the soft spots. Let air dry for 1
- 2 months before filling. Filling a deck in this manner only works if the wood
fiber structure is still intact. If the wood has been saturated for too long it will
not work because the wood is wet rotten mush. Removal of the deck top and replacing the
wood is then required.
Doing some planning on the placement of two forward facing
windows.
Ground out a dish at every fill hole, then filled with short hair resin filler.
Still need to fill some blemishes with Interlux Watertite Epoxy
Filler before priming the deck with Interlux 404/414 Primekote.
The 404/414 Primekote is the best product I have ever used for a filler of crazed jell coat and surfaces with aged blemishes.
Opened up the blisters, still need to grind out the de-laminated fiberglass.
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