Nothing major to report from the week, other than everything takes a long time. Joe was with me at the boat on Thursday & Shane came down on Saturday to work on it.
Shane and I discovered some areas of little rot on the fore deck and started to take up some of the fibreglass and realized it rips of off huge sheets.... which is perfect. We got about 75% of the fibreglass removed from the deck. This process makes the deck much smoother and lets me examine the areas that need to be filled a lot easier. As I did the big rips of fibreglass with my hands and a paint scrapper, Shane went around the edges and meticulously chiselled out the cracks between the deck and teak foot rails...thank you Shane for doing that because I am loosing a little bit of patients at time for the small details.
Next steps: Over the next week I will continue to rip off the fibreglass from the deck and chisel out the edges. Once that is complete I will be able to go around with epoxy filler (West Marine Epoxy) fill in any small gouges, rot areas, and make small curved troughs around the cabin to move water away from the edges.
After that, I will take the same epoxy, mix it with a thinner and paint 3-4 coats over the full deck which will create a sealant on the marine grade plywood.
Once the deck is filled and sealed, one final sanding with a 60 or 80 grit sand paper to get it roughed and ready for painting!
The goal and the dream would be to have the deck ready for painting by the end of this week.
Dirty teak trim. (Fibreglass is smooth even though it doesn't look it.)
Clean teak trim!!
Joe worked hard sanding the paint off the side deck.
Cockpit is looking good, almost ready!
Day off the boat...sanding parts of the cabin at the parents.
Foredeck cleared of fibreglass, just needs a little filler & sanding.
Side deck also cleared (the grey is just dust..vacuum stopped working.)
That's a big pile of fibreglass...everyone is itchy.
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