new sole
I went with 1/2'' Meranti plywood for the new sole I picked up from Shine. I glued cleats with thickened epoxy to the sides of the hull made up of marine ply plywood strips 2 1/2'' x 10''. The cleats were all coated with epoxy before I glued them to the side of the hull. They are glued about 1/4'' below the bottom of the sole so I can place a good bed of thickened epoxy to bed the edges of the new sole to the sides of the hull.
I made stencils out of strips of 1/4'' plywood so I could transfer the contour's of the sides of the hull and inner liner to the new sole material. I glued the strips together on the stencil's with a hot glue gun. Hopefully by this coming weekend the sole pieces will be cut out and be ready to laminate their bottoms.
I'm going to wait on glueing down the sole permanently until I order and install a new fuel tank and install the fuel fill line and vent line.(I remembered past postings of the difficulties trying to install the hoses after the sole was in (''THANKS TO ALL'') I plan on laminating some 10 oz to the bottom and top of the new sole.
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