Weighed it
The give-away on these is weight. Dry hull should be around 320 lb; this one is well over.
Water in the foam, then. Wrote down the weight so I can measure progress by it later.
13 Sport · restoration
Boston Whaler 13 — transom and foam
by Example Logs
· boatbuildlog.com
An example log of the job every old Whaler eventually needs. Shows a restoration where the boat is structurally sound but waterlogged.
This is an example log, not a real project.
It exists to show what a useful build log looks like — dated entries, tagged to a step,
with hours recorded and mistakes written down. The technique in it is illustrative;
don’t follow it as instruction, and check anything structural against your
designer’s drawings. Its hours are excluded from the site’s median figures.
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Jan 2026
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