Sunday, August 21, 2005

Pre-finishing Flooring

Brutally hot today in Charlotte, so work was slow, even with 3 fans. I was able to sand out the patched section from yesterday on the bow, it will paint nicely:

We also applied a little cab to the joints between the raised sections of flooring and will be coming back to sand that and then wrap it with some cloth and then sand it out and Durabak:

Moving into the cuddy we have opted to keep a small lip at the floor in order to prevent water from moving that way, again it was cab'd into place and will be sanded and then wrapped and sanded again:

here is an interior shot of the new addition:

we also applied some more interlux-interstripping on the hull and have come to the conclusion that we will most likely have to sand the 4 coats of bottom/house paint off in order to get a good base for the new paint- that is going to s u c k!

Saturday, August 20, 2005

More Floor

The cabosil that I placed along the seams sanded out nicely and I was able to lay a layer of tape down on the upper sections. My mistake was doing this at night and I had to contend with an s-load of moths...some of which are part of the boat ;)

Today, I shimmed out the rest the of the stringers for the back piece of flooring, cab'd a piece of plywood up in the cuddy to give some support for the front cleat and then cab'd and glassed the old lifting ring hole on the top-front.
Will have the lay some fabric across this too:

It will look better after some elbow grease - but you get the jist:

I also spent some time fashioning a sidewall support/side-mount rod holder, here is a pic of my primo fabrication (lil duct tape, cardboard and razor knife):

Here is the first section that I cut out with that pattern, jury is out on this idea right now:

Sunday, August 14, 2005

Floor Install

I was able to screw in and glass down the first piece of flooring for the raised section this weekend. 9" tape was used to secure the piece to the sidewalls and cuddy sections:


plus some epoxy over the counter-sunk screw heads.
The top section of flooring and the middle sections were also screwed down and I applied some cabosil to the edges, in order to make the glass transition a little smoother...nothing too detailed here b/c we plan on duratek'ing the entire floor and that stuff looks like it makes everyone's work look a lil better:

we have a cut-out that will fit into the old step hole, next trip we'll glass that in and put a layer of 6" tape to the sides.


no pics but were also able to get the supports cab'd up for the batch floor hatch frame.

Monday, August 01, 2005

Floor Shimmed

Just looking back at some earlier work, and had to laugh at the June 04 post that said "we are just about ready to put the floor in"....

We shimmed in the raised flooring section, put in the flooring braces (that span the gas tank) and shimmed the lower flooring section out level too. We used cabosil to secure the shims down to the stringers then set the sections down and used a couple of blocks to add some weight and hold'em down:

I also sanded the patched crapper thru-hull sections, more sanding is definitely needed, but it is starting to take shape:

Freebies are always welcome, thanks to Mr. Tebo for this acquisition, all she needs is the replacement cushion, which we think that we can get from Todd: