Sunny Day, Driveway, Hatches, Epoxy, Dos Equis

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I finally got to do my hatch recore/ rehab I wanted to get done. It was really necessary in my feeble mind anyway.

I started by making two rear hatches for the aft. I cut up an old hatch I had that was starting to delaminate nicely. I cut out the coring and trimmed the edge and corner until it passed the eyeball test. Then I sandwiched some mat and some wetted out 1/2" plywood. Weighted it. After it kicked off enough I wetted out another layer of mat taken out to the edge.

The console seat hatch had'nt rotted, it broke loose. It looks like there were big voids where the wood met the hatch. The glass on that radius was dry. So I ground out the radius and covered everything in a thin layer of cloth and then a layer of mat .

The anchor hatch only had one small case of wet wood in a corner so I scabbed in a piece of plywood and covered everything in a layer of mat.

The fishbox and baitwell hatches were in the worst shape.I cut the cores out and sandwiched some mat and some wetted out 1/2" plywood. Weighted it overnight. Then I rolled out another layer of mat taken out to the edge on both hatches.

Great Day today, going in later this week.