Now that we have seen pics from the hull being completely empty, to new stringers, then new flooring and finally bilge paint (from Dec. '21 to present day), we're gonna revisit the breakdown and start to go back in time for a little about what has transpired over the last several years.
The shop would not take the top cap off so that became my responsibility. I brought them a hull with carpet. The shop got backed up with other jobs and then the Coosa became one of those materials that thanks to the pandemic and supply chain issues, became very difficult to get in-stock. So I brought the boat over to the shop in October of 2020 and it sat for one year. It had already been 5 years since I took the motor out while she sat in my garage so wasn't too broken up waiting another year as I have other projects and boats to fill my time.
I brought the hull over on the trailer, left if for them till they swapped over to one of their boat dollies and then took the trailer back home with me.
When my hull arrived, forum member rlove30188 was having work done on his 1982 Supra Star so I was able to get a few photo opportunities with the early classics together.
Once again, we get the opportunity to see just how fraudulent the other shop was that did the stringer repair. These pics tell the complete story right here. This was a quick and easy con job that pocketed him lots of extra cash. Clearly, the original foam was not removed and clearly, the outer stringers were not removed. Everything he told me he would do, he did none of it. He should be in jail and I should have sued him into oblivion but thankfully, his shop is closed now as he got a collapsed lung from years of working with fiberglass and retired for health reasons. Karma is a bitch and I hope for his sake, it tears him a new one.
Let me tell you what you may not be able to see in these pics here. Get this, the stringers are two different kinds of wood. Yes, 2 fricking kinds of wood. Cause again, what you pay for is not what you get. It is truly unbelievable. I could not make this story up even if I tried. I paid for Douglas fir and no doubt, he decided to put only one stringer in made from it and then I guess he said, "Screw this, let me run to Home Depot and grab some pine so I can use the extra cash to buy some fishing lures. I've got a hot date tonight with my rod and reel. Hell, maybe even have enough left over for some more taxidermy."
Seriously, I found out about this way back in 2015 when I started cutting away the fiberglass to see where the wood rot was around the motor mounts. You'll see quite a few of those pics as we go along but that was just days before I found that the outer stringers were still in the boat and rotten. "I don't like the tone you're taking with me" still rings in my ear to this day. On a side note, the pine was less rotted than the Douglas fir that everyone so bragged about being better for rot resistance. It held up extremely well regardless or was better glassed in than the Douglas fir, who knows?
Oh well, time to update the scoreboard.
If you're keeping score at home, so far the Crook = 3, Boat Owner = 0
That is 2 outer stringers not replaced that were supposed to have been (that I paid for)
3/8" basic plywood for flooring instead of the 1/2" marine grade (that I paid for)
Half Douglas fir, half pine for main stringers (Boy, did I pay for this)
Breaking down the shotty work from the swindler.
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