1994 Allison Marine inc 17CC rebuild.

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Needed a little bigger sand bar hopper boat, so I'm getting away from the Mini boats for now. Picked up this 17' Allison marine inc center console project the other day, ( not the typical familiar Allison manufacture ) getting to work on the hull. they only made these 1994-1995 and from what I can tell a few other companies had a very similar hull or even used the same mold at one point. Even with all the rotted wood and waterlogged foam the boat seems pretty light, should be fast for what it is. Thinking a Merc pro xs 115 for it when finished but open to other options. Boat has a 8" Delta style pad that progressively gets narrower toward the bow. Not really a high perf boat but should be a decent family hauler. Plan to extend the strakes all the way to the back on the one set and possibly add a little depth to the pad, undecided on that part though, wouldn't be much maybe 1/4'' or less for a little added lift.

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Well I didn't want to cut the stringers completely out but they were delaminated and needed to be removed to clean the glass up inside them. Finished the gutting and grinding. Time to make a jig to hold it straight and start the rebuild.

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Making little progress finally had a good amount of time to spend on this boat. Added an extra layer of glass on strakes, started the lamination on the transom with 3 layers of 1708 and 2 layers of 1.5 oz mat at the top of the cutout.

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Got the bottom fully glassed with a fresh layer of 1708, got core bonded and glassed on the pad. Cut out and bonded first layer of core on the transom. Making progress. second layer of core will be staggerd at the joint at the transiton of materials, knees & stringers will butt up against that seam for added strength.

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First piece of transom core glassed, 1.5 oz matt-1708-1.50z matt, next to bond next layer then glass it in and transom will be done.

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Last 3 layers of glass went down yesterday on the transom so it's finished, 9 fresh layers of glass. time to build some stringers.

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I got one stringer built, be a few days before I can get the second one made with this storm coming.

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Got the stringers made and cut to fit, starting to radius the corners and will get tabbed in soon.

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I got the stringers glassed in, made some knees and got them glassed I , started making some bulkheads. I was curious as the boat felt very light so I weighed it and as it sits it's only 341 lbs, Only structural things left to add are a few sets of bulkheads and the floor, both will be super light. I anticipate this hull being around 550lbs complete without engine, should be fun with a 115 pro XS on it, they make around 135hp from what I hear.

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Bulkheads are finished except last one near transom, it will be a bulkhead seat base and gusset so i need to get some measurements before i can make that one.

[22R]

Nice looking work. Looking forward to see how it turns out.

22R

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Got both sided of the floor glassed, not tabbed in just in the boat for mockup, last rear bulkhead/ rear seat base cut to shape and mocking up the console and few otherthings.

[hydra-sports]

Nice work

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Thanks, got a little bit more done last few days, Rigging tube ran through stringer and glassed in, stringer and knees filled with foam, middle bulkhead glassed into place and the rear bulkhead has been glassed up.

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Finished rear bulkhead, glassed it in.