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TacomaCouple
05-05-2009, 10:49 AM
This week we will be bringing home our next project boat. It's a boat that is ALL wood. It's about 50 years old and I plan to work through the year remodeling her and having her ready to put on the water on the first day of boating season, next year.

I'm wondering where I will need to look for a great deal of info on how to completely restore an old wooden boat...tools and supplies and "How to" info.

If anyone can direct me in the right direction I would appreciate it.

I really wish I could figure out how to post her pics on here to show before and during and after pics.
Nehalennia
05-05-2009, 11:11 AM
This week we will be bringing home our next project boat. It's a boat that is ALL wood. It's about 50 years old and I plan to work through the year remodeling her and having her ready to put on the water on the first day of boating season, next year.

I'm wondering where I will need to look for a great deal of info on how to completely restore an old wooden boat...tools and supplies and "How to" info.

If anyone can direct me in the right direction I would appreciate it.

I really wish I could figure out how to post her pics on here to show before and during and after pics.

Upload pics to Photbucket.com then use the link surrounded by IMG to post them here.
TacomaCouple
05-05-2009, 12:35 PM
Upload pics to Photbucket.com then use the link surrounded by IMG to post them here.

Will do when I get a chance to play around with it.

The boat APPEARS to be a 1962ish Thompson Runabout. It has a very old Johnson 90 attached to transom. All parts are there...so I am told. The family who is giving it to me inherited it from their dad. It had been in his garage for over 30 years waiting for him to rebuild it but he died and they are giving it to me.
Nehalennia
05-05-2009, 02:52 PM
Will do when I get a chance to play around with it.

The boat APPEARS to be a 1962ish Thompson Runabout. It has a very old Johnson 90 attached to transom. All parts are there...so I am told. The family who is giving it to me inherited it from their dad. It had been in his garage for over 30 years waiting for him to rebuild it but he died and they are giving it to me.

Does it look anything like this one?
http://www2.ablboats.com/images/listings/736/7366401.jpg
voyager
05-05-2009, 04:00 PM
This week we will be bringing home our next project boat. It's a boat that is ALL wood. It's about 50 years old and I plan to work through the year remodeling her and having her ready to put on the water on the first day of boating season, next year.

I'm wondering where I will need to look for a great deal of info on how to completely restore an old wooden boat...tools and supplies and "How to" info.

If anyone can direct me in the right direction I would appreciate it.

I really wish I could figure out how to post her pics on here to show before and during and after pics.

Unless the picture routine here has changed all you need to do is scroll down and click on manage attachments then browse to the location it is at on your computer and select it.
voyager
05-05-2009, 04:02 PM
As to the wooden boat project I admire your ambition. Just reading your post made me tired. Good luck and put Aleve on your list of supplies.
TacomaCouple
05-05-2009, 04:19 PM
Does it look anything like this one?
http://www2.ablboats.com/images/listings/736/7366401.jpg

Yup!!! Sure does!!!
bradvo
05-06-2009, 12:45 AM
This week we will be bringing home our next project boat. It's a boat that is ALL wood. It's about 50 years old and I plan to work through the year remodeling her and having her ready to put on the water on the first day of boating season, next year.

I'm wondering where I will need to look for a great deal of info on how to completely restore an old wooden boat...tools and supplies and "How to" info.

If anyone can direct me in the right direction I would appreciate it.

I really wish I could figure out how to post her pics on here to show before and during and after pics.


I thought I seen a wooden boat center while on the Foss waterway, so it would be on Dock street. Bet they could help ya with information. Good luck
Play N Hookie II
05-06-2009, 08:06 AM
We had a boat just like that when I was a kid. Once while fishing out of Edmonds in choppy water we were cruising along rocking and rolling and the main support beam along the center of the boat cracked and started letting water in. Was scary as hell. Guess it runs in the family?:D

Sounds like alot of work...have fun with it. I admire your ambition.
SomeSailor
05-06-2009, 08:28 AM
I thought I seen a wooden boat center while on the Foss waterway, so it would be on Dock street. Bet they could help ya with information. Good luck

I've got a 1967 Carver lapstrake at the house (cousin to the Thompson's) It's all wooded down and about 1/2 way sealed and then paint for the hull. I got side-tracked going back to work, but she's still sitting there.

She's 19' and has a 100HP Envinrude Electroshift, and a 18HP Longshaft Evinrude kicker.

Who knows if I'll ever have the time to finish it, but they are fun little boats to tinker on.
TacomaCouple
05-06-2009, 09:19 AM
We had a boat just like that when I was a kid. Once while fishing out of Edmonds in choppy water we were cruising along rocking and rolling and the main support beam along the center of the boat cracked and started letting water in. Was scary as hell. Guess it runs in the family?:D

Sounds like alot of work...have fun with it. I admire your ambition.

Too funny!!! You crack me up. Yup, I think it will be a nice way for me to get to understand boats even better than I do...which isn't much, but I'm learning.
TacomaCouple
05-06-2009, 09:28 AM
http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv3/tacomasportsfan/ThompsonBoat.jpg
TacomaCouple
05-06-2009, 09:29 AM
That pic shows almost exactly...even the trailer, that I am getting. Obviously not in that condition but give me a year...
SomeSailor
05-06-2009, 10:39 AM
Here's a pic of mine:

http://www.iboatnw.com/gallery/d/2588-2/32942535JKQort_fs.jpg
Nehalennia
05-06-2009, 10:58 AM
Both look pretty cool
Eeyore
05-06-2009, 08:50 PM
Thompsons are good boats and I have found them easier to rebuild than other lapstrake builders. All lapstrakes by the nature of their construction have typical failing points. I have spent more time under, in and around lapstrakes than any other type of wood boats. I also found lapstrake one of the harder types to find "rebuild" information on. When you get ready to get into the rebuild I would be happy to pass along what I have learned during my lapstrake projects. Nothing, in my opinion, looks better than a lapstrake runabout.
bradvo
05-06-2009, 09:10 PM
I think it would be a cool project, I would like to have one myself one day to fix during the winter months. Give me something to do besides gripe about the crappy weather.
Go Aweigh2452
05-07-2009, 04:28 AM
My very own first boat was a Thompson 13 ft. Worked most of the summer landscaping to pay for it. I was 15.
TacomaCouple
05-07-2009, 12:09 PM
http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv3/tacomasportsfan/BoatProject2009ThompsonBoat005-1.jpg
TacomaCouple
05-07-2009, 12:12 PM
http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv3/tacomasportsfan/BoatProject2009ThompsonBoat008.jpg

http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv3/tacomasportsfan/BoatProject2009ThompsonBoat007.jpg

http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv3/tacomasportsfan/BoatProject2009ThompsonBoat013.jpg

http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv3/tacomasportsfan/BoatProject2009ThompsonBoat024.jpg

http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv3/tacomasportsfan/BoatProject2009ThompsonBoat025.jpg

http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv3/tacomasportsfan/BoatProject2009ThompsonBoat018.jpg
Nehalennia
05-07-2009, 12:19 PM
Wow!
Looks like it's all there. That's very cool......now get to sanding.
Tedster
05-07-2009, 08:20 PM
Looks more a resurection than a project to me. Have fun!
Randygh
05-07-2009, 09:05 PM
The hull looks like good wood. Alot of stripper, a couple good sanders and alot of elbow grease and she'll clean up well. It looks like a fun project. Have the trailer sandblasted, prime it and it'll spray out just fine.
TacomaCouple
05-08-2009, 07:57 AM
The hull looks like good wood. Alot of stripper, a couple good sanders and alot of elbow grease and she'll clean up well. It looks like a fun project. Have the trailer sandblasted, prime it and it'll spray out just fine.

Yup....time to get busy.
Friendship II
05-12-2009, 01:55 PM
There are a few places to go online for help in wooden boat restoration.

This is a local club (Northwest Classic Boat Club) with folks mainly into the old fiberglass models, but also wood:

http://www.classicboatclub.com/forums/

This is a local chapter of a national club (Antique and Classic Boat Society, or ACBS) that is mainly into old, wood runabouts:

http://www.acbs-pnw.org/

This is a national forum by Wooden Boat Magazine:

http://www.woodenboat.com/forum/

Jennie Dahlby
Friendship II
TacomaCouple
05-14-2009, 07:40 PM
We appreciate that info...it really helps us a lot.

Thanks
TacomaCouple
05-31-2009, 08:32 AM
Spent some time on Saturday taking that old Johnson off the back of the boat. Talk about a freakin heavy sucker!!!!!!!!! Got that stored away until I get a chance to focus on that. Building a platform to work on the boat on and trying to research a place who does sand blasting on trailers to get the trailer blasted....
TacomaCouple
06-20-2009, 02:20 PM
It was some hard work but I have this thing stripped down and all the rigging and steering rigging off it. The seats are out of it as well. The only thing still on it is the actual steering wheel because I can't seem to figure out how it needs to come off...Two of the three screws seem to have broken inside and just go round and round and I really don't want to break it to get it off.

Last week I did find the original Hull stamp on thr transom from the company so we could make actual ID in the boat. Now we are working on getting it all registered in my name so I can beging working on it. WSP needs to give it HIN after we get a few papers notorized this week then I get it registered in my name then get out the sanders....