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Typhoon 249 Needs total renovation. The boat in on a very serviceable trailer. 99% of parts included...
This boat was never registered, it was moored in front of original owner's property...

Let me know if you are interested in taking on this project and we can work something out.

John

Alan is an excellent source for a trailer he makes up a nice trailer for a reasonable price, his contact info is in the membership directory... I am on a tight budget so I put had a welder put one together me. It's not as pretty but it works fine...

Hey endless summer, Sounds like you are about to have some fun! With help from Alan Stewart, I put together a trailer for a typhoon weekender project I have just outside Philadelphia, I'm not interested in selling but you are welcome to come take look at it if your in the area. I towed the boat home...

I need to replace the sliding hatch for my typhoon...

Try as I may to make progress, I am slipping backwards... I towed my typhoon over to my friends house to get some help and I lost the sliding hatch somewhere along the way...

Please contact me if you can help.

John Birmingham
302-299-5264

Here are so pictures...

Thanks for the feedback, I removed the hardware and cut the deck away. The balsa was wet and rotten. I cut through a bit of the bottom layer of fiberglass deck a few inches from the transom, wish I hadn't done that! Things are drying out...

Jean,

Thanks, I went back on some old threads and saw a similar outlook on this issue...

John

Here are a few pictures of keel cracks on Typhoon.

The first picture is turned 90 degrees to the left, the joint you see is between the keel and the rudder.

The boat was holding a large amount of water after many years of sitting in the woods with no ready sign of seepage through these cracks.

This looks like a good approach to aft deck repair. I ordered 3/8 balsa from defenders yesterday, it arrived today using the cheapest shipping, I guess, I'll be giving it a try this weekend...

Any other suggestions for a soft aft deck?

scrubbed some more when I got home...

After a good bit of scrubbing

Before the clean up...

Here is my Typhoon Hope being lifted out of the woods after a long rest...

Gave her a good scrubbing at the car wash on the way home...

Typhoon "Hope", hull number 249, was lifted out of the woods where she sat for a very long time. The original owner put her away and never got her back in the water. I'm hoping to get him out on the Bohemia River in the spring where he sailed her off a mooring for years. I stopped at the c...

Thanks, I hope to hear back from them...