Looks nice, simple and effective. What are your plans for your helm pod? Something Carolina custom-ish?

Yes .. Carolina style . With a electronic pop up

okay back at it .. peeled all the core material off the center deck boards and ground down. going to replace with foam core.... added a few more pieces of foam core around the gunnel cap for the rub rail. and prepped and coated the twin bracket..last coat for bracket went on tonight..

center deck
 

here is how I removed the core material, I just cut around the edge with my 4' dimond blade. and then peeled the skin off

after clean up I wet out a layer of 1.5 oz matt

wet out glass
 

1.5 oz matt to give the foam a nice bed to bond to

I gave them a quick sand down today. and had the bright idea to try the RESIN INFUSION TECNEQUE Well it sounded good. Trying to elimated a couple steps... I did not have the proper equipment . other than a vacuum pump.. so here it is

Rtm
 

Cool at first, then well, it got messy

here you go
 

sucking it in

fishing product
 

not bad for the first goat rope-in. With out the proper equipment