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Time for an update: The deck has been done and we are back in the water. Everyone has been telling us how good it looks and wants to know if we can do theirs. :D On to some important things. Before the tank and deck install we would do about 29-30 knots at 4000rpm. After the tank and deck...

Hitting the home stretch now. We busted our backs this weekend and got the deck glassed in. We prepped all day Saturday and sealed all the little gaps and valleys as best we could with evercoat fiberglass repair putty. Also had to sand the little bit of remaining deck which sucked. Orbital...

We've been busting it pretty hard over the last two days and got our list done. Pics are below. The deck has been precut and is currently sitting in place. Tomorrow we will be securing it to the stringers and sanding the old fiberglass down to prepare to start laying the fiberglass on Saturday...

Got a little more work done today. We installed rubber between the sides of the tank and the new stringers we built. This will serve to give the tank some buffering between it and the stingers and also to make sure it won't shift in its cavity. We also installed a few braces between the new...

Its been a grind over the last few days but we made some major headway. Below is a list of things we've finished off. All new cavities are now poured and bagged with new floatation foam. All new stringer wood has been wrapped in 1708 and covered with epoxy resin. We installed the tank!! We...

Sorry for the lack of pictures but I found that its pretty hard to do fiberglass and pour foam all while taking pictures with my cell phone and wearing a tyvek suit. I put a few pictures below of the progress. Let me know what you think. Progress on Sunday was good. We got the new main...

Sorry for the delay here's the update from last weekend and today. We spent most of the last few days finishing cutting the openings to their final sizes, dry fitting the tank (multiple times), removing the two main middle stringers and finished off today with building the new front and rear...

So it took a little longer then we expected to get the tank in but we finally picked it up today. This thing looks awesome all shiny with its white epoxy :D . Too bad no one will ever see it. Great job by SP tanks (other then a small delay in build time). We ended up ordering a custom T shaped...

So today we were able to empty the old tank, remove it and clean all the foam out of the hole. To our surprise it took about 2 hours to siphon the gas out and slice the foam around the sides of tank. It then only took about 3 hours to remove the old tank and foam from the cavity. Once we had a...

This wouldn't fit with the others

Time for an update. The deck is cut. We quickly found out that none of the pics anyone shared with us or the stringer layout we received from Parker was correct for our boat. Awesome. Instead of a 27" tank opening in the middle we have 3 sets of 16" cavities. Also none of the three cavities...

Here is the stringer layout I got from Parker. Looks pretty close to what I expected even though its not the exact year. Quick calculations put the max tank size in the 150 gal range. Probably going to look for something in the 100-125 range to give me some wiggle room and save a little weight...

MDP what board did you use? I checked into the Space Age guys and liked what I saw from the Thermo-Lite Board® Tough. Pretty much the same stats as the coosa 26 but in a 24 density. I also have a company in my town that is a supplier for them so I would be able to skip the shipping cost...

Thanks for the help guys. It looks like I'll be starting after the new year. A buddy of mine has a 40ftx60ft pole barn that can fit the boat in the doors so it looks like I'll be nice and warm and dry to get her ready before the March stripers get here. I do have a question about what tanks...

Megabyte: I would love to fit 127 gal in there. My only problem is that if I can't find the stringer plan to preorder the tank I will have to wait until the deck is removed to do the measuring or preorder something smaller to ensure it fits. I was hoping to have it all ordered and ready to go so...