fiberglass – Page 2 – "Bold Flight"

March 10, 2018March 12, 2018

Repairing cabin top cracks – again!

March 10, 2018March 12, 2018

Electric distribution panels are in

January 27, 2018January 28, 2018

Redo: paint for repaired cracks

January 27, 2018January 28, 2018

Redo: mast base

Laying down 2-layer chop strand

Got all the air bubbles out

Adding a layer of epoxy with low density filler

Next day: sanding the repair flat

Ready for re-paint

January 13, 2018January 16, 2018

Finished cabin top repair

January 7, 2018January 9, 2018

Repairing fiberglass fuckups

Poor job done by the “professional” we hired resulted cracks as soon as some pressure was put on cabin top during beam installation.

Grinding teeth while grinding off fresh paint and non-skid

As suspected, the cracks are along the edges of repaired areas

There is still wet core in there

Strengthening with some cloth

Helping epoxy cure in the cold weather with a heat gun

December 18, 2017January 2, 2018

Getting ready to paint boom

Boom is getting ready to paint. The outboard end was pretty wasted so it was laid up with a couple layers of mat inside. Old holes were filled with chopped strand.

Filling in old holes on the boom

Fixing outboard end of the boom

Paint and primer for the mast

December 16, 2017December 17, 2017

Cabin top fiberglass battle continues

November 19, 2017November 21, 2017

Getting ready for seacocks

Drilling out old thru-halls

Monkey climbing a palm tree

Getting beam ready for refinish

Beam after clean up

Sanding beam plate

Taking a break from grinding fiberglass

New holes for head drains

New galley sink drain