This is how I'm doing mine, Tom is a wealth of info and help and answers the phone. http://www.performanceboats.com/jet-boat-performance/251682-sleekcraft-stringer-project.html

I like the wood dowle set up. But if you scroll back to the beginning of this post I was told putting the stringers on top of the floor would be a bad idea and that the motor would eventually rip the ply woods apart layer by layer. I really can't see how so when I was planning on encasing the whole thing with woven heavy fiber. How has this set up worked for you and have you run it yet and how much hp?


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Any progress to report, pictures?

And here starts the fiberglass work. And it's 60 degrees out here in New England year of the jetboat.


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Looking for opinions here. So far I have two layers of woven 18 oz fiberglass laid down so far. The glass doesn't go up and over the stringers yet. The floor boards are gonna run along the out sides of the stringers and I was planning on running two layers of the woven in one piece all the way up and over the stringer and down into the bilge like what I have already done. My question is is this enough or should I run another layer up and over before the floor?  Planning one using chop strain one the nose and the transom before the floor. Already have a couple layers of woven on the transom. 500+ hp 454 is going in. 


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Well the motor had been painted. And the fiberglass work is in the home stretch. Soon we should be moving on to something more enjoyable. Lots of parts are flowing in from the mail. Can't wait to start the rigging and wiring more pictures to come. 


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Looks like the stringers came out really good

Well shit doesn't line up. And it's back to the drawing board. Anyone have any luck using a hoist leveler and trying to figure out where to mount the rails? 


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No work has been taking place on this boat lately trying to finish up the big boat this past couple weeks and then back to the jet boat. Gonna try and make a alignment tool that goes into the pump and bolts to the motor. And use that and the cool four point engine lift thingy i got lone to me. We will get it one way or another. But that's for the idea I might use a strap or two to keep the motor in place while we mark hole


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