Progress has been slow and the weather has been bad.  I did manage to get the bottom painted...

      

 

                                     

I think it turned out nice.  I held off on painting the keel for now.  We are going to template and fair the keel before putting a new finish...

A few pics of the verm job as it all comes together...

I sanded off the old Teak/Holly plywood which was only 1/8" thick.  I glued the ply to a 3/8" sheet of marine plywood.

Once the vermiculite was removed, I cut templates out of cardboard then made plywood stretchers to support my new floor.  

 These stretchers were cut out of 3/8" marine plywood and fiber-glassed in place.

 The new floor fit like a glove and I think it looks pretty good with it's new teak oil finish.  You can see that I started filling the sump with resin.  This is a slow process of poring in a little and letting it harden (and cool) then adding a little more.

 I weighed all of the Vermiculite that was removed and it was just under 200#.  This doesn't include the water that it was holding.  I can assume that the boat is much dryer and lighter now although I added 5 gallons of resin.

  Before After

With not much to do and no time to do it, I decided to purchase this 1978 J24 for $1000.00 and start a renovation project.  There was a decent 3.5HP motor and a trailer included in the deal and they were both in pretty good shape.  I figured, I was financially ahead at the beginning...

 The bottom is in good shape. I plan to do a light sand to get it cleaned up and put another paint job on it.  No blisters to deal with...  As far at the hull goes, the major work is in the keel well.  I had a Vermiculite disaster.

I used my rotozip to cut out the floor.  This was fun and only took about 30 minutes.  Once the fiberglass floor was removed, the verm was revealed and the work began.

This is what the floor/sump looks like now.  Once I get the hull completly dry, I will fill the sump with fiberglass.  I will glass in ribs to support the new teak/holly floor.  This was a messy job but not really hard.  It only took about 6 hours to get to this point...

Started working on the bottom today.  Light sanding to clean up the bottom.  Getting it ready for a new paint job.