My Gondo GT has the traditional bottom. never seen the 3/8 bottom on a GT either. Any pics of the actual bottom.
Here is mine, photo credit to Sharp Shooter!
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My Gondo GT has the traditional bottom. never seen the 3/8 bottom on a GT either. Any pics of the actual bottom.
Here is mine, photo credit to Sharp Shooter!
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Hello Brian,
I've seen your boat on Performance Boat and I love it, the stack injection is too cool! :thumbsUp:
I'll snap a pic of the bottom as soon as I can and post it up for you. If I'm not mistaken the bottom on my boat was the XH511 and the deeper runner on your boat was called the XH511T. According to all the info Jim Lange has posted on PB about the history of Cole bottom design, the Cole TR-1 was a splash of the XH511 while the Cole TR-2 was a splash of the XH511T.
And yes the lawn mower does make it much easier to get the boat in and out of the garage!
It's been a while since I've updated this thread so I thought I'd post a few progress pics.. First up, got the bottom all fixed up and looking good again.
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Next was the trailer, bought a Competitive from a guy in CA and had it shipped back to Ohio. I'm converting it to a dolly style so it takes up less room in the garage - it was white but we repainted it black. This was right after getting home from the body shop (and just missing the snow).
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And last but not least for now, finally finished the floor. What a project this was, can't even begin to imagine how many hours this took form start to finish..
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That's it for now, time for a vinyl wrap so it'll look decent until I can repaint it and then start bolting hardware back in.
Awesome work there!!! THose floors / stringers look @@ KILLER!!!!!
Can you describe your steps / materials at a HIGH level please???
Nevermind, I went back to the start of this thread, end grain balsa over the original stripped down floors with EPOXY over that...
DId you say that you DID clear urethane over the epoxy???
I just used DurePox on mine. NEVER AGAIN!!!!
That baby looks awesome!! Great work.
Sorry, not Durepox, that is a speed coat. The junk I used was Duratec. I would flowcoat and cut and buff again. Just not use that crap.
Wow it really looks great!
Great thread! ...love the look of the Hondo GT decks .... looking forward to more pics as you go
Yesterday (Saturday) in my journeys I made a cool new boating connection, performance engine builder that used to wrench for Lou Osmond/Team SpeedSport TFH (before Famous Amos joined Lou's team). He has a SUPER nice Hondo drag boat runner bottom in his shop that is being set for weekend play for a former drag racer, I will share pics soon...
Please keep showing your progress, very cool project sir...
Thanks for all the responses, glad to hear I'm not boring everyone to death.
V Drive and shaft log mock-up.
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x2 looking great!