I must like punishing myself

[Blue_Heron]

I'm glad you decided to finish it. There are lot of rebuilds going on, but only a few with this level of quality. I'll be watching to see what you core the deck with.
Dave

[billythekid]

I got sometime this afternoon to work on the boat and got some work done. I flipped the cap back off and and glassed in the gunnel, where it was cut.









I got the cap cored and ready for glass, I used dyvinacell, corecell and aircell I think was the name of it? anyways, I show a series of pics on how I dry fit the coring material.



I guessed and figured there was 2"-3" of curve so I oversized the with by three inches to get the curvature in the coring




I cut the scribed curve, then fit it back and cut the squares out to make it fit.





I then take a tape measure and and a marker and hold it at 2.5" against the outside and and scribed the coring with my marker. then cut it and fit.











well after I got done I mixed up about 2 qts of divilette putty and trawled it in with a 1/4"x 1/4" tile trowl.

you can see the corecell in the center bow, this is where the bow cleat goes.







I let it kick for about 2 hours and went back with the multimaster and put a 45 degree bevel on the coring so the glass will flow smoothly off it.

[billythekid]

I glassed the coring today, it takes longer to dry fit the glass then it does to lay it! I put a layer of mat and a layer of 1708 over it. In some spots where the rivet holes were reallymessed up I left the glass long and rolled it up the inner edge to beef it up.

I cant believe how strong the cap is now.








I also layed two more layer of glass over where I split the gunnel.

gonna try to get the template done for the floor tomorrow afternoon.


also someone asked me how I got the dynaglass in between the bulkheads and the stringers, I packed an empty caulk tube full of material and made it really easy to squirt into the joint. I got the empty tubes from aim tubes from sj discounts

[Capt Chuck]

Yo Billy

I'm glad you took my advise and got back at it : your kids are not too "Young" to watch and pass a wrench....enjoy brother



BTW: Get out of that NJ weather & come on down to Fla and take care of some deck issues I have....I love your work

capt chuck

[billythekid]

I had an hour of sunlight left when I got home and went to work. I was determined to finish the floor template. I got 90% done when I was called in for dinner. tomorrow I will finish up where the bilge hatch is going and the fuel sending unit, pick up tube pie plate will go. trying to start laminating this weekend.