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After a week's vacation and multiple days of doing nothing due to rain I got working on the boat again last night. I unbolted the front pieces and stripped a couple of the bolts due to being over aggressive with the impact gun and epoxy on the threads which I ended up having to grind off the head of...

I've had my B25 for over 10 years. Been with I/Os the whole time, the boat rides nice and is fairly fuel efficient at 22-23kts. The motors were mercruiser 3.0L 96 vintage and I had to replace one engine during the time. I trailered the boat and was religious about keeping water out of the bilge and ...

On vacation this week, 8/6 Nauset / Bearse shoals - caught about 10 bass vertical jigging in 70' in under 30 min then they disappeared. Went to bearse with a livewell full of macs, had a good time feeding bass at the lip of the rips. Nothing large but we caught quite a few of them. It is quite enjoy...

on the topic of molds and getting a release I was thinking of using the space where the old drop down was for a pair of fish boxes. I was thinking of using a large diameter sonotube as a mold to get a tube which could be cut into quarters and act as a corner radius to make the fish boxes easier to c...

Ian,

I am impressed with the quality of work that you have been putting into this boat. I only hope that I can come close in completing my project

no pics tonight but I glued the pieces back on the cabin top. Needed 6 bolts per side to hold it all together tightly, even still the aft area hangs down if not supported. I clamped it up using a set of calls to align the pieces.

a little out of date - 7/5 bearse shoal off monomoy 50+ bass on a tide live lining macs on circle hooks - all fish 30-33" 7/7 bearse shoal off monomoy 35+ bass on a tide live lining macs on circle hooks - all fish 28-33" 7/21 canal rat - east end running tide bouncing bottom with jigs 7 bass mostly ...

here's my dilemma, I'm 95% sure I am going with a notch and a large single motor. The other 5% wants to leave my options open for as long as possible for me to change my mind. would it be better to notch now and glass as needed or notch afterwords and fill anywhere needed? How wide did you make your...

cut out 2 pieces yesterday, my template wasn't all that good as I didn't realize it was flexing and the final pieces ended up too big requiring a lot of tuning to get right.

was able to epoxy seal one side of each of them.

epoxy sealed the upper side of the plywood panel yesterday, glued it up today. While test fitting the pieces I couldn't get it to stay together with drywall screws because there is a fair curve in the cabin top. I ended up drilling some holes and using 1/4-20 bolts to hold it together. https://photo...

the template is finished for the transom core. I will cut out 2 pieces out of 3/4" meranti and epoxy seal them today. https://photos.app.goo.gl/zBUnHK6XAg8gkLEM9 I plan on notching the transom, where have others cut? it is just above the top of the bump out? the reason why I ask is I am trying to fi...

do you have mechanical controls? is there any throttle creep? I had a yammi that the friction screw was too loose on the shifter and the throttle would back down on its own

worked on reattaching the cabin top today, I cut out pieces of 3/4" meranti to tie the 2 pieces together under the cabin top and test fit everything. https://photos.app.goo.gl/GhH1VZyAK94pJqbD9 Piece of meranti tying the glass togther https://photos.app.goo.gl/Uy4QJ73jCCp7UCnQ6 I'm trying to figure ...

here's a pic at about 15kts, I was running with a buddy boat, taking pics of his ride at the same time.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/oyZAUMuMmX3feeoC6

the low speed on plane feature of our boats is one of the things I really love, when it gets ugly it is NP for the bertram.

btw, I've had my heart set on the combo you've got set up for a long time. Most of my runs are at least 20+ miles one way and the combo I really want is 24+ kts cruise at the lowest GPH possible. I really don't care about WOT but would like to retain the boat's ability to still run 15-18kts when it ...

that is interesting that the boat doesn't want to stay on plane at 26mph. for example, my b25 with twin 3.0L mercruisers at 135 hp a side with 15x17 pitch props, with one motor shut down and trimmed up I could get the boat on plane (the motor didn't like it in any way) and do 16-17 kts. I realize I ...

didn't get any grinding done , but here's a pic of progress https://photos.app.goo.gl/3KFbeg47dyFPtiCu6 the flange in front of the part in front is loose and will need to be cut out and re-glassed, I'm thinking of taking out the flange the whole way and re-glassing. as Cam has mentioned I am now thi...

my kids went crazy last night so I didn't anything done after dinner.... but before that, I cut the rear-facing pieces of the cabin top down and started beveling the cabin top to be able to glass it all back together. I decided to concentrate on this area as the crack in my stringer extends under th...

lets just say my back hurts this morning, sanding the stringers to prep for new glass is no fun because angles of the stringers and no good place to position your body without bending over while balancing. I got the inboard side of the port stringer done and a portion of the outboard side in a littl...

I am no expert by any means but I will be going through a lot of the steps that you have been describing sooner than you will in restoring my B25. My thought would be to watch a few of my posts and see where the steps I do make sense and avoid all the mistakes that I will make. Right now I've gutted...

and the idea is pretty un-original, I got it from you....

Here's a pic I've saved in my archive, I think you might recognize it
https://photos.app.goo.gl/XPAqAFMBFw97Z2fz6

let me know if you don't want it posted online and I will take it down.

I am going to try and push off as much as possible to later years. My thoughts while the deck was opened up was to make the best use of the available space under the deck. If I were to reinforce stringer bonds first then put a flat panel across the lower center stringer and cross brace and box it in...

Your performance numbers with the zuki 300 are promising to me and my project. I would have hoped for a little lower rpm (4300/6300 = 68%) and closer to 10gph cruise, but the numbers you are seeing with a loaded boat are definitely within reasonable range. What are your speed/fuel burn #s when you a...

Cam, All the pics I've seen of your boat, you've done an amazing amount of high quality work. My renovation definitely won't be done to your level of quality. I can wait to see the final outcome. I don't have your patience, If I were you I'd be driving myself crazy not being able to run the boat and...

Yes, main electrical panel would go in console. I am curious where I am going to put my batteries. In the dual I/O days, I had 2 group 24 starting and 2 group 31 house batteries. I had a battery switch and multi-engine battery isolator setup to keep it all charged. The starting batteries were in the...

In my renovation I want to get more deck space. We've only stayed over on the boat 6 times in the 10+ years I've had the boat so the v-birth only needs to be there to house the porta-pottie. So I'm cutting down the area where the windshield used to be to make more deck space. My plan is to put a lar...

All the folks from the old B25 board are here :) I am still taking the boat apart to figure out what is wrong + redesigning it. Friday I took a chunk out of the top cap making the area where the windshield used to be much smaller. I need to finish that to figure out where the cabin floor can be cut ...

Scot, Ok, I got it on the epoxy, I have a 5 gallon kit I was planning on using to glue in new marine ply into the transom and put 4 layers of 1708 to seal it in. The balance could be used on the stringers, I'm guessing that I will need a bit more resin than what I've purchased so I will probably wor...

Cam,

It seems that you've made a lot of progress on your boat since we've last talked.

I don't have an exact measurement but my boat didn't have mid-boat cleats when I bought it, I added a pair of pop-up cleats about 18-24" behind the main bulkhead.

Here's the pics of the dammage
https://photos.app.goo.gl/dGQLpCHGwB2RSHo79

https://photos.app.goo.gl/mgvCKMz19vAEF4Yz7

It appears that the flange is bonded well, since others have had issues with this area in the past I am inclined to grind it off and layup new glass

I hope to use the original stringers and reinforce them so they are as good as new. Long run I hope to fill in the area outside of the stringers with a closed cell foam before the new deck goes down. I've been reading posts here that others have had issues with the port side stringer and the bond be...

Well I answered my own question tonight, I cut out the drop down section and found that there is about a 30" section where the stringer broke off at the flange on the port side. The starboard side seems to be ok. New questions Should I grind off the flange and remove it? How should I prep the string...

also let me know if you can see the image, I'm not sure I shared it correctly from google photos

Hi All, It's been a long time since I've been on the site, I had an account years ago but haven't posted much any-where online in the last several years. I have a 64 Bertram 25 and the I/Os finally put me over the edge last fall and I sold them for parts. I am planing on converting my boat to a sing...