This is a quick overview of our Landau rebuild. It started out pretty ugly as you can see, but we're plenty happy with the way it turned out. We started by scraping the ice and snow off it in January, had the wood and carpet out the first weekend.
The next weekend, we flipped it over and started stripping the hull. Using cheap paint stripper and scrapers made pretty quick work of it.....4 coats of paint, including the brown house paint we ran into !!.........it's now down to bare aluminum, which we are going to keep as the finish.
Then it was off to the welding shop for some repairs and the front deck support......sure beats the heck out of the plywood and 2X6s that made up the supports before
While it was at the welders, I had a chance to do some work on the outboard. 1983 Merc 25HP, we replaced the starter, safety starting switch, fuel lines, fuel filter, readjusted all the linkages and cleaned up and repainted the cowlings, and topped it off with some Merc decals off ebay.
Once it was back from the welders, we started the nasty task of removing the old carpet glue. I discovered that a cup brush on an angle grinder was the quick but really dusty solution to that.
Next we sprayed the inside hull with Rustoleum Camo Khaki. Knowing we were going to recarpet, we just painted what would be exposed.
A later picture, but I coated the "bilge" area in bedliner....
New wood going in, 1/2 ply coated in fiberglass resin. No real mods to this boat other than the front deck, so simple floors and deck
Marine carpet going down
And this is where we're at as of this weekend. The seats still need to be mounted, and the wiring finished for the fish finder and lights. I used an old ammo can for a switch box, and ran all the wiring thru corrugated conduit from the auto supply store. This is the result from just simply starting to rewire it so things worked......it kinda snowballed on us......lol
I know there's a million details I just glossed over, so if there's any questions.....ask away!
The next weekend, we flipped it over and started stripping the hull. Using cheap paint stripper and scrapers made pretty quick work of it.....4 coats of paint, including the brown house paint we ran into !!.........it's now down to bare aluminum, which we are going to keep as the finish.
Then it was off to the welding shop for some repairs and the front deck support......sure beats the heck out of the plywood and 2X6s that made up the supports before
While it was at the welders, I had a chance to do some work on the outboard. 1983 Merc 25HP, we replaced the starter, safety starting switch, fuel lines, fuel filter, readjusted all the linkages and cleaned up and repainted the cowlings, and topped it off with some Merc decals off ebay.
Once it was back from the welders, we started the nasty task of removing the old carpet glue. I discovered that a cup brush on an angle grinder was the quick but really dusty solution to that.
Next we sprayed the inside hull with Rustoleum Camo Khaki. Knowing we were going to recarpet, we just painted what would be exposed.
A later picture, but I coated the "bilge" area in bedliner....
New wood going in, 1/2 ply coated in fiberglass resin. No real mods to this boat other than the front deck, so simple floors and deck
Marine carpet going down
And this is where we're at as of this weekend. The seats still need to be mounted, and the wiring finished for the fish finder and lights. I used an old ammo can for a switch box, and ran all the wiring thru corrugated conduit from the auto supply store. This is the result from just simply starting to rewire it so things worked......it kinda snowballed on us......lol
I know there's a million details I just glossed over, so if there's any questions.....ask away!
