Mako 224 renovations
Mako224
Posts: 428 Deckhand
I love fishing my Mako out in in the gulf. Have had her for 6 years now. Re-powered last year with a new Suzuki 250 and added a swim platform, live-well/LP and electronics. The one thing that stood out as needing correction was the aft boxes. They came up short of your knee and kept you from the edge of the boat an they where wet storage and always contained water in. Been wanting to remove for a while.
Thought I would share the process.
The first cut took 6 years but got it done. Now its time to start planning the rebuild.
Three trash bags of foam and remains of the boxes- Removed about 50 lbs from the boat
Will keep this updated with the finish work as it progresses.
Thought I would share the process.
The first cut took 6 years but got it done. Now its time to start planning the rebuild.
Three trash bags of foam and remains of the boxes- Removed about 50 lbs from the boat
Will keep this updated with the finish work as it progresses.
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My family has a 1984 254 Mako that is still going strong and is on the fifth set of engines..........
This one is a 1984. Was a friend of mines dad in HS and fished on it many times. Had a chance to buy her back in 2011. Addicted to the way it fishes for a 22'10" boat. Easy to operate, efficient and raises fish.
i gain 2.5-sq ft per side with them gone. The 25 gal in floor live-well (Disconnected) wil be my wet storage
I redid my 76 23 Mako a couple of times and still own it.
Got some more work in this weekend and had some help from Jeff D...AKA Child Sea-Port. Was nice to use the Garage
Foam leveled and glassed. Putty made and Coosa laid up.
On top of the coosa I have got one layer of mat, 1 layer 1708, 1 layer of core mat and one more layer of mat on the port side. Starboard is ready for glass build up.
getting closer
Looks great!
Looking Aft
Looking through the box to the front. In this picture you can see the foam that was exposed when I removed the wall. It was in good shape with some moisture at the bottom
Rebuilding with Coosa 26
3 pieces formed and puttied in place. Little messy and will need to clean. I changed the floor angle so I filled the seem with new foam. Then I trimmed and spread some chopped fibers and glass bubbles to a smooth finish
Backside glassed around the seems. Will go back and sand then add glass across all of it. This will be a lot more supportive in the corner then before. I will have to remove some more of the knee wall to make the lines a little better. Most of the knee may stay as the section is very much a structural point.
Got the Starboard aft section cut out.
Rebuild
Spent some time working on fuel line coffin
From this
to first pass
Cleaned up a little. Snapped this for fishing space
Lamp acting as LED's...LOL
Spent a lot of time the past couple of days working on little things. Lots of sanding and filleting. Will work on some glass tomorrow afternoon as the fog and dew was thick this morning and will be again tomorrow.
Starboard side is close. first skim coat of thickened gel is on. Will sand off and redo to level out the area. you can see I added 1/2" divinycell board to the gunnel wall for some protection of sliding coolers and to stiffen up the gunnels. She is very stiff now. Rough stage but she is taking shape. will be nice with the bolster pads around this area. any one use the Seadeck bolster pads? Curious how those thinner ones worked.
Here is the port side. I went a little crazy with the grinder and now I have to rebuild the lip for the floor drain. I used 1/4" scored divinycell and then thicken resin with cobosil to for the lip. This was covered with CSM and 1708. will update the trim next time
One mistake I made was not covering the floor properly. Now I have to sand and redo non-skid when all doen due to resin spots.
Starboard side 2nd coat and now sanded with 80 grit. I will go bag and sand again then skim one more time.
Port Side light skim coat and sanded once. Still need to clean up gutter drain with over glass
Since I removed the cleats from the aft box area I added some pull up cleats on the aft ends. Mounted with a backing plate
Went to Marine connections looking for a set of colming pads but came up empty. . Did sneak a hockey game in with two of my kids this week.
Pop up cleats are really nice!
Got some more work in on the fairing and sanding. The drain lip has taken a while to get right. If i was to do something different I would have just filled it in.
I am really liking the space.
From here
to today. I used a small 1/2" paint brush to work on the radius and some other areas. Not to bad but did have some brush marks. Prep:
This is hit with 400,800,1000. not waxed yet as I have to hit it with 180 and touch up some areas.
Mate Series Rod/cup holders added
In between drying time and football.
grabbed a couple of these guys on 4lb test
Starboard side also has second coat on it for the pin holes. This was not sanded today but most will come off. Man my finger tips are raw from the sanding
I have received in my adtec P-14 filler, Duratec surface primer and Duratec Hi-gloss additive
Made a daisy chain and have supplies for 3 more in different patterns. Will add them to my trolling spread this year on a tag line off the outrigger.
I realized how bad the regulations have gotten not by fishing but by reading the magazine articles. Have we come to this as a seafood dish?
My posts are my opinion only.
Moved the Lumitec lights off the knee and put under the gunnel. These are white/Blue dimimable lights. I have a blue 40" blue LED light coming for under the gunnel
Ok so what changed with the picture codes?
Does seem odd as [img] is standard html...looks like the new forum uses Markdown. Never used it. So this failed.
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Quite odd.
Looking good Mako. Nice to see things coming together.
Awesome, will be some nice standing space leaned against the gunnel.
Tight Lines,
Eric Fosbender
Team Googanator
2006 Bull Dolphin 22 with 250 Etec
Way to jump in....making a good boat better. A dreamboat.
Yessir!
Nice deck space!