Second Weekend in March

I can certainly feel the spring season on my heels, and it has given me even more motivation to get my rear end into the boat shop even more. Amazingly, my wife is still supportive at this point, but I know she has got to be looking forward to the completion date as much as I am.

I spent the better part of the weekend in the boat shop. Friday I put in three hours, Saturday 7 hours and Sunday 5 hours.

When I put on the spray rail, it raised the hull sides by about an inch and a half in the back of the boat, and three inches at the front. To compensate for this, I needed to raise the stations as well so that they'd be tall enough to accept the deck.

First I prepped all the surfaces by sanding it all down. Then I cut strips of 1/4 inch divinycell out of a sheet that I had already glassed on both sides. I screwed these strips in place on top of each of the stations. The I cut thicker blocks out of the glassed divinycell and used them to box the strips in place. Once everything was dry fitted I epoxied it in place, including the blocks, and I pulled fillets along the edges of all the blocks. Then I wet out some strips of glass that I had pre-cut for tabbing, and tabbed all the strips in place.

I also cut out the front and rear decks, and glassed one side of them with polyester resin.

The last vertical support is in place for the side decking that will run between the front and rear deck. I just glassed and tabbed it in one step.