Trojan Boat Forum

Ken,
Thats an F30 Clean Machine. Same as the one we have. Yours looks like it needs more work than ours did. I'll be happy to offer any assistance/info that I can. We have been working on ours since 2006, she has come a long way but we still have work to do. Ours is a 1979, with 305 Mercruisers. Let me know.

Here are photos of ours.

http://www.trojanboats.net/wforum/viewt ... highlight=

Hank

Jersdevil wrote:Ken,
Thats an F30 Clean Machine. Same as the one we have. Yours looks like it needs more work than ours did. I'll be happy to offer any assistance/info that I can. We have been working on ours since 2006, she has come a long way but we still have work to do. Ours is a 1979, with 305 Mercruisers. Let me know.

Here are photos of ours.

http://www.trojanboats.net/wforum/viewt ... highlight=

Hank

Thanks I am pulling the floor and side board in the back of the boat...as the support is no longer holding the floor and the side boads are also starting to go...any ideas what I should replace them with what type of wood?

Well my deck is fiberglass. So I don't know what you are dealing with (size and dimension wise) Teak is always a good choice (rot proof). What are the dimensions of the supports and side boards? We did replace the rotted plywood that the raw water jars were mounted to with starboard.

Jersdevil wrote:Well my deck is fiberglass. So I don't know what you are dealing with (size and dimension wise) Teak is always a good choice (rot proof). What are the dimensions of the supports and side boards? We did replace the rotted plywood that the raw water jars were mounted to with starboard.

It is about the same size as the back of your boat basically from the cabin back....it has teak wood on top of a type of ply wood... there are sections of that, that need replacing. The major problem is the wood that holds the floor up has rotted all along the edges of the floor....along with it looks like the 2 beams that the motors sit on ...but will have a better idea on them when I pull the floor....SO I am not sure what type of wood to use for the foundation of the floor...do I just go by some 2x4 and build a normal floor leaving room for the equipment or is there a special way to do it and special wood to use?

Ken...I have never done anything like what you need to do. Prehaps someone else can give you advice.

What i did on my f25 is use regular pine studs and coated them with epoxy resin and fibre glass, then when i attached the deck to the frame work i run all the screws down to hold the floor, then removed the screws and floor, then drilled the holes bigger and filled with epoxy resin, layed the floor back down, drilled the holes where the screws were, then reattched the floor coating each screw and screw hole with epoxy resin to help minimize the possibillity of any moisture getting into it, then covered the runs of screws with epoxy resin and fibre glass tape.

Ken what did you decide to do with the deck? I just purchased a 73 f 30 and the deck is in need of a redo. I wanted to use some rot free material and was thinking about Nida-core or something similar. I would love some pic's of your redo so I know what i will be getting into.

Chris

Nida core??? for decks? (what kinda decks do you have currently? mine are teak/ply composite)....core cell maybe, with glass both sides....as long as you put solid blocking in way of cleats and other high stress areas....I'm on the fence as well over trying to save the teak decks or just glass over and paint?

I have been put in contact with a boat builder who builds with composite or let's just say wood free materials i will let you know what the name is. Nida Core is a product made in the city I live in and the material is used in a lot of the high end fishing boats built in FLA. I will let you know in the next few days what the results are.

Sorry I missed your question. I have a blend on my boat some of it is glass and some is plywood with some type of teak over it. From what I am told it is not original which is ultimately what lead me to go with non wood as well as the fact that the price to rebuild was so good I am letting them run with it. I will post pics when I get them of the status.

Ken.. To answer your question on the ID # 300-4202. 300 is for 30ft. 4 is for the year it was built and 202 means it was the 202nd f30 built for that year. Good luck with her. They're alot of work but worth it in the end. These boats are very quick for the size and will plow through just about anything!