BentoniaPhil
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I bought my first boat in April and was trying to hold off on my modifications till after the summer. My boat is (was) fishable, but i went to add some short side bunks to the trailer today to make it easier to load and noticed that the trailer was in poor condition. I needed to remove the boat to fix the trailer, and thought I might as well gut the boat to make it lighter and since its going to be gutted, paint it, redo the floors, re-wire everything and clean and repaint the engine. All this because a bolt was a little wiggly and I didn't like it. so here goes the renovation (read "the destruction and never ending repair") of my boat.
I've got questions already. I've got 3 cracked ribs like the one in the picture, what's the best way to fix them? I'm thinking about just welding a flat strip of aluminum over the top of the rib. would that be pretty sufficient, or would it bend and crack again? maybe i should use aluminum angle, or c channel. For those of you that weld on your boats, what kind of welder do you use? I've got access to a few and have used them for other things, but I don't know much about them and don't want to warp anything.
I've got questions already. I've got 3 cracked ribs like the one in the picture, what's the best way to fix them? I'm thinking about just welding a flat strip of aluminum over the top of the rib. would that be pretty sufficient, or would it bend and crack again? maybe i should use aluminum angle, or c channel. For those of you that weld on your boats, what kind of welder do you use? I've got access to a few and have used them for other things, but I don't know much about them and don't want to warp anything.