1988 SeaCraft rebuild
So Its been a fairly productive weekend. I was able to get the deck started and bow liner painted. Since this liner will be enclosed I decided to go cheap on the paint. I went with Rustoleum Topside paint. For the price it's not bad. The hard part was trying to color match the exterior gelcoat. The downside with the rustoleum is the few color choices. my gel coat is 1 part ultra white and 1 part ice blue. Apparently just adding a bit of royal blue to white paint will not get you there. I was able to get it surprisingly close by adding a slight amount of a different brand of key lime yellow I had from another project. I decided to roll it on because, again, it will be enclosed and out of sight, it was windy today and because it's just extremely awkward to move in and out of the boat by myself if I were to spray it. For the deck I cut the 3/4" nidaplast, set the new hatch gutter in place and fiberglassed the underside. I opted for the unfinished nidaplast because of the $200 price difference. I also added some Coosa reinforcements where the nidacore meets the hatch gutters front and back and gave it an extra 2 layers of 17oz biaxial glass. The pic shows the rear deck section in place but the topside has yet to be glassed. The underside of the second section is currently setting up. I'm debating if I should glass all of the sections together before gluing it down or doing it in sections. I would love some input. Lastly I cut out the old fishbox hatch gutter and prepared it for the new deck by removing the old coring material. Most of which was, not surprisingly, soggy. I will be filling the drain passages on the old hatch gutters because the new orientation won't really allow for proper drainage. I will likely just drill holes so the water drains into the fishbox.
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