All Decked Out
After 8 weeks of hard labor, the decks are DONE! And we’re really happy with the results.
New Chainplates – Not as Hard as We Expected
We finally finished installing the new chainplates! We’ve been dreading this project since Day 1. What we thought was going to be a huge, fiberglassy mess inside the boat turned out to be a small fiberglassy mess inside the boat. With two of us working together, one on the Fein Multimaster and one on the […]
Fall Projects
I know, I know…we haven’t posted in a loooong time. When I sat down to write this post I wasn’t sure what I was going to write about because I didn’t think we had worked on many projects around the boat. I recently bought an Aeropress coffee maker and was going to write about that. […]
Intergrip non skid
Yeah, yeah. I know it’s been a while since I last posted. Writing about boat projects has sort of taken a back seat to actually doing boat projects.
Hood winked
Back in early June I removed the dilapidated old sea hood in order to fix and finish the companionway hatch. Since I’m having so much fun working with fiberglass and resins lately, I figured now would be a great time to build a new hatch turtle. Ugh….
More core
Not much exciting to write about. More core repair the past couple weeks.
Core Values
Last summer we peeled up all the teak decking and filled about a thousand screw holes in the fiberglass skin with epoxy. We knew we had some serious moisture issues in the core material and would eventually need to address the problem. “Eventually” finally came last week.
Note to self
Not too much excitement going on, just more sanding and fairing. And a bit more epoxy primer over the last couple days.
First coat of primer
Yesterday I got the first coat of epoxy primer laid down inside the cockpit. I’ve never worked with this kind of “paint” before, but once everything was wiped down & cleaned it went pretty smoothly (no pun intended).
Sanding the cockpit
I finally got everything faired smooth (I think) inside of the new coaming extensions on Friday. I figure at this point just shoot for pretty smooth. This weekend Jeni and I fired up the sanders and vacuums and went to town doing what we love to do…