Putting my 1991 31 foot Ocean Master on a SERIOUS diet!

[GringoJohn]

So that was the good. The bad was this thing just keeps getting heavier. This last season it got spanked every trip out (199 to 1) by my gamefisherman. It was such a masacre, that this year I don't even want to fish it until we can lighten it up. The floor was 1 inch thick plywood, with several layers of fiberglass mat (I hate mat) over it. Super super super heavy, especially since this boat is made out of polyester resin, and 24 years means EVERY inch of plywood in this boat is rotten. Even stuff that was sealed, because of Osmosis and the fine pores in Polyester resin, all the wood is 100 percent rotten. Check out the floor:





And then the parts that don't have wood are like an inch thick ?? Check out the thickness of the CENTER CONSOLE wall. I get it, they did thick heavy boats back then, but this center console easily weighed in around 800 pounds.



And then here are some de-construction pictures:







And when we finally got the tower off and the console out, here's another side view: