1978 SF restoration, my first one.....

[wtenglish]

Have had a little time the last couple of weekends to try and get the deck finished up. The coring was finished. I would suggest marking the pieces because when I got to the point of installing the pieces around the holes for the rigging tubes I couldn't remember what went where and wound up making a hockey puck in the process. I was bedding the pieces in Dura Bond but wetting the divinycell out per the manufaturer before placing each piece.



Looks like art to me..... maybe someone in the government will think it's worth buying for their modern art collection.



My friend Jesse aka "the mayor" was in town from Charleston and we were able to glass the coring in with a layer of 1708. The temps are approaching 90 today so it should be ready to flip over pretty soon.

[wtenglish]

After grinding off the excess glass around the flange we flipped the deck over this morning. There were some areas in front of the holes for the rigging tubes where the resin hadn't properly catalzed during the layup but it seemed to only affect the layers of matt. I've cut those areas out and will be repairing in the next couple of days. This is going to take a lot of sanding but overall am pretty happy with it.

[billythekid]

where are the updates

[wtenglish]

Billy,

the long hours from my regular job have been killing my restoration. I have been doing a lot of sanding in the evenings but nothing worth posting. I bought a small amount of Signature Paint for my fishbox and hope to paint that and the console this weekend. I have been waiting for three weeks on a fuel line that was backordered that is preventing me from installing the deck. Thanks for checking in!

[SeaPlusPlus]

Need...mo...updates...

[wtenglish]

Alright, Alright.....

This is fishbox after two heavy coats of Signature.



Yesterday the 3/8" fuel line that had been backordered was delivered after waiting for a month. Thanks to advice from Sea++ I swapped out my 1/4" pickup tube that came with the tank before the deck went in.



After reviewing everything to make sure I hadn't forgotten anything to be installed below the deck I vacuumed her out one last time. You can see the bow area has one coat of Signature on it as well as the CC further in the background.



The PVC pipe in the back right is for the raw water washdown. It almost got left out but remembered at the last minute.



We balanced the deck on the bow to get in position to drop it in.



After on last test fit I smeared Cabosil on the stringers and dropped it in place. After that cures I will go around the perimeter and add more cabosil where the deck rest on the blocking before I finish the seam with 2" tape.

[wtenglish]

Looks like I posted the same pic twice. This was the installed shot.