Thanks Chance. Im really excited about the project. Ive done other boats but always wanted a 23' for myself. A few years ago I rebuilt a Sabre sailboat from bottom up which I still have. Sailboat may be on the market this spring but I am so far undecided.
The order of operations was something like this: First I ground down the inner skin which was left intact. Next I mixed up some cabosil and chopped glass with epoxy and troweled it with a 3/16 notched wall trowel. I added the first layer of MDO (after rouging the surface) and screwed two dimensional strongbacks from the inside. I then filled any voids around the edges with those empty calking guns from west system and the same filler mixed up like putty. After roughing the second transom cut of MDO, I thinned out the epoxy with heat and rolled it on to saturate the surface of the MDO. I coated both sided of ply with thickened epoxy and pre-drilled/ screwed the two together. The glass cloth you see is layer one. I just rolled and applied that on to get proper build up. One more layer and then I should be able to glass into the hull sides and fair in.
Engine beds are next and all the grinding is already done. Anyone have anything to say about using treated landscape timbers for engine beds?
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