Liner Removal

[JohnC]

I am looking at a 1969 20' CC. It will need transom work and likely deck work. Has anyone ever popped out the liner in one piece? Is it possible/hard? I was thinking of cutting around the transom and I have a forklift with long forks to lift it up and out if I can get a few straps around it. I would flip it and re-core and then put it back in if I could do it this way.
Also, I don't know if an unmolested 69 is self bailing or if the deck needs to be raised. This too seems like a smaller job with the liner out in one piece but I haven't thought that one through yet.
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks,

[Chaser]

Just pulled the sole out of my 1978 MA20. Came out pretty easy. I cut the hull flange off with a circ saw all the way around, pulled the tank, used a hole saw to cut a hole in the fwd end of the tank trunk and also in the deck just fwd of that so I could put a strap through and pull it with the forklift. Came out without too much fuss. Then the flanges came out just by ripping them off the hull sides by hand.

Raising the whole sole 1" and building new sections for the sole. The old sole was very wet and very heavy, probably 300+ lb. The new sole is 75% Divinicell foam and will be 1/2 the weight of the old one. Reducing weight was a primary motivation for my project. Realistically I think building new is about the same amount of work as re-coring, especially if you want to raise it up. And, its new and better quality as well.

Some pics for reference: https://drive.google.com/folderview?...Hc&usp=sharing

[bilgerat]

mine was a bitch to get separated on my 73 20sf, I tried to remove the whole top deck in 1 piece but that wouldn't happen. I ended up cutting the entire floor out and the transom with the splashwell and it still didn't want to come out, after many hours and a lot of bad words thrown at it she finally came out, musta had 50 pounds of potter putty under the front deck alone!!! good luck