Deck!!
To pick up where i left off last with the deck--
Once we were happy with our plywood mock deck we traced the templates onto 3/4" Coosa BW26. It took 4 sheets of 4'x8'. Then we tabbed the two bow pieces together so we could set the hatch before installing the deck. From that point on we were working with 3 deck pieces bow, middle, stern. Because of our "seam" from epoxy to poly at the transom the lay-up varied slightly. Each deck piece was laminated with 1 layer of 1708 on the underside. Then we added the hatches a described earlier. Next we cut all the holes we would need under the console. 2 holes for the PVC rigging tubes, and 2 more holes for the fuel fill/vent and the livewell fill/drain.
Left extra long lengths for all the hoses, doubled up 316 SS hose clamps on all connections. Hopefully we don't have look at them again for along time.
Frist we set the Bow and Middle pieces (poly section). We used "hull and deck" to bond the pieces to the stringers and the supports along the hull side. set a bunch of weight on it and let it kick. Followed that up with fillets and two layers of 1708 off a 50" roll. We would use one big piece to laminate the coosa and as a tab to the hull sides. All poly laid wet on wet.
Similar process for the stern piece (epoxy). We made our own thickened epoxy putty, set the deck with a bunch of weight and then 3 layers of 1700 to get a similar layup. all epoxy laid wet on wet.
Got a layer of poly fair up front and epoxy based for the stern and that's how she rests for now. Finally looks like a boat again!!
Even snuck a good day in on the 23'.
Pics of console build to follow.
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