Bill and George's Moth Boat Restoration Page
This Moth boat is probably a home built boat built around the late 1930's or during WWII.  We think it is a design from a popular mechinics magazine dating to the 1930's.  We intend to restore this boat to full race condition and have it sailing for the  Brigantine Yacht Club vintage moth boat regatta on June 21, 2008
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From the  picture shown, George striped all the old fiberglass off the boat.  That was a hugh job that I'm glad he did.  When we put the boat in my garage it had the bottom removed.
First order of business is to cut the old CB well out.  When it came out it must have been 25 pounds.
I posted these pix March 1 2008.
I faberacated two replacement pieces for the keel.  One is the main runner and the other one filles in the actual gap in the keel.
If you look closely you can see how much the new parts have added to the rocker of this boat.  Keel frame members # 5 and 6 are about 1 inch lower that the new keel.  That's a good thing.
All of the new frames are in place.  It made the boat solid. I used come-a-longs to pursuade the old boat back into shape.
This is what I have been working on for the last year.  It's done and it's for sale.
Email me if you are interested

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Bill
All of the frames are in place and the boat is very solid.  I put the keel spline back on.  We were going to trash this piece but it became an importain part when I discovered we have a 50 inch boat.  The spline is needed to accomodate 1/2 of a 4x8 panel for the bottom.  (It acts as a spacer!)
It's Saturday march 8 and we got a lot of work done.  I made the two bottom panels last night and George came over today and we got both panels on the bottom.  Looks good.
I flipped the boat over and on the left is the before and on the right is the after.  The deck was completely rotted.  The remaining stringers are also rotted.  The entire deck has to be rebuilt.  I thought we had an easy one with how fast the bottom went..  That's old boats!
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