Thread: making my alicraft watertight

Got off work late after working in a freezer room all day

But with my mate's mum wanting her garage back there was nothing to it but to crack on.



removed the serviceable plywood and removed any corrosion



siliconed and cut Ali strips to reinforce it







we then proceeded to make the patch repair

Couldn't find a place nearby that sold Ali sheet metal off cuts for a reasonable price so I ended up buying a sheet from jaycar!
we bent and hammered it into shape.
flap disc on the angle grinder to flatten to domes on the original rivets
siliconed the patch and pop riveted it into place before drilling holes for the solids and finally removing the pop rivets and replacing them with solids.










weather is not good so no test run today. But I'll have another update soon as we're going to reinforce the transom further for the 15hp.