teak swimstep rebuild

(tonyv420) · (tonyv420) **Join Date: Jul 2007** 03-31-2012, 2:00 PM

Decided to cut 4" off each side of my swimstep in order to keep it from skewing my wave. Thanks for the idea Duffy! I can’t wait to try it out! Here are a few pics!

(tonyv420) · (tonyv420) **Join Date: Jul 2007** 03-31-2012, 2:03 PM

here is a pic of the bottom, you can see how close the brackets will be. Pretty much took off as much as I could without changing the taper

(ryanw209) · (ryanw209) **Join Date: Jan 2010** 03-31-2012, 3:48 PM

Wow nice job. Looks good! I should do this to mine on my Sanger 215

(tonyv420) · (tonyv420) **Join Date: Jul 2007** 04-01-2012, 12:13 AM

I did it because the corner was dragging and causing a double lip on my surf wave. You should do it if you think it will help. Guess I should have called it a modification rather then a rebuild. Tools used were a skill saw, band saw, hand planer and a router. Oh yea I also sanded with a palm sander with 150 grit. looks better then new also! I recommend doing the sanding and re-oiling even if you don’t cut it down.

(donb) · (donb) **Join Date: Mar 2012** 04-01-2012, 11:10 PM

Lookin' good! Can't wait to see how it works.

(wakecumberland)

Looks great. Some before and after surf pics would be nice

(tonyv420) · (tonyv420) **Join Date: Jul 2007** 04-04-2012, 10:31 AM

boats coming out of storage next week, and i will post pics of the differences!