Strip Out and Engine Removal

After making the decision to redo the floor and sub frame, everything had to come out. The seats carpet and engine all had to be removed. 

I then started cutting out the out the floor. I used a grinder to cut out a square of fiberglass over the softest spot on the floor. I had decided to do everything I could to minimise fiberglass dust on this project, So I used a pair of old tin snips to cut out the fiberglass skin over the floor. This method worked well, the black finish on the form ply that had been used for the floor, prevented the fiberglass from bonding to it. Another method i found to work well was using a paint scraper to lift the fiberglass where it joined the hull again this only worked well because the last repair on this boat had not been done very well and the surface on the hull had not been keyed adequately.

Once the fiberglass had been removed, I pulled the floor out in whole panels. The form ply was completely saturated and broke apart easily. Once the floor was removed, I removed the home made copper pipe heat exchanger and the expander foam from the hull.