opalized
Seaman Apprentice
- Joined
- Apr 17, 2010
- Messages
- 31
Pic 1, was saturday morning, much clean up, and more grinding, i went to bed late last night itching pretty good, but i had the bottom of the boat ready to proceed today, the wood for the bilge area was cut. I woke this morning, and was in the boat at 8 am making templates to use to cut the floor plywood, by 10 am sunday (this morning), i had the floor cut and prefit, a final cleanup, and wipe down of all areas to be worked today with acetone, and i was ready, ooppps forgot, had to precut all the fiberglass cloth. by 11 am i was mixing fiberglass 1/4 gallon at a time, first the transom, spread the back wall with fiberglass work in some fiberglass cloth more fiberglass on top, a coat on the skin side of the transom, and in the boat it went, clamp in place and work fiberglass around the perimeter, start working on the bilge area next, pic 2,3,4
once that was done, as fast as i could i continued mixing fiberglass, ran the glass up either side and down the middle for the first section of floor, then loaded it up with more fiberglass and dropped the biggest section of floor in, emmediately going to the final small piece up front, spreading fiberglass then cloth and more fiberglass on top, drop in the small section of floor. ran the peremiter of the floor with cloth attaching it to the boat on the top perimeter, and a piece of cloth at the joint, i had also ran 2/4's cut to fit under the joint that where fiber glassed to the floor once the large sheet was in place so i knew exact where i wanted it, 6 hours of mixing and spreading the floor is finally in. I even found enough time to cut and glue and staple my seat bases pict 7 is somewhere near where it sits as i type. Got to sand all exposed areas to include the back wall of the boat, and drop the sheet on the whole floor now, and the transom, ran out of fiberglass and time, by the time i could have gotten back to the transom, the fiberglass had completely cured so instructions say sand before proceeding, i need to complete the bilge area, sheet the transom ont the inside of the boat and sheet the floor, appears im going back to the hardware store for some more fiberglass, have to order the clothe, and bilge paint anyway.
once that was done, as fast as i could i continued mixing fiberglass, ran the glass up either side and down the middle for the first section of floor, then loaded it up with more fiberglass and dropped the biggest section of floor in, emmediately going to the final small piece up front, spreading fiberglass then cloth and more fiberglass on top, drop in the small section of floor. ran the peremiter of the floor with cloth attaching it to the boat on the top perimeter, and a piece of cloth at the joint, i had also ran 2/4's cut to fit under the joint that where fiber glassed to the floor once the large sheet was in place so i knew exact where i wanted it, 6 hours of mixing and spreading the floor is finally in. I even found enough time to cut and glue and staple my seat bases pict 7 is somewhere near where it sits as i type. Got to sand all exposed areas to include the back wall of the boat, and drop the sheet on the whole floor now, and the transom, ran out of fiberglass and time, by the time i could have gotten back to the transom, the fiberglass had completely cured so instructions say sand before proceeding, i need to complete the bilge area, sheet the transom ont the inside of the boat and sheet the floor, appears im going back to the hardware store for some more fiberglass, have to order the clothe, and bilge paint anyway.
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