On this day I cut out and fitted the wood for the transom.
I scribed lines in the wood with a wood burning tool,to try and simulate the balsa look.
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I ground out and glassed in the exhaust holes,swimstep holes and various other thrugh hull fittings.
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Here I laid up the transom wood using two layers of wet mat to bond the transom wood to the hull.I then used 2x4's and bar clamps to clamp the wood tight untill cured.
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dam that boats gonna be brand new when you get done, that is a beautiful job, wish i knew enough about glassing to do that stuff, it looks great
I just got done doing a bit of glass work to my boat and lemmie tell you, I do not envy you! That stuff sucks and itches for days. Looks good though! Next winter I have some holes to fill in my boat. Yay! Definitely keep us posted!
~Brian
Thanks 76 anthony.
Yea, luckydazeIt is alota itchy work,but I have gotten use to it and it does'nt seem to bother me as much any more.
The realy frustrating part is trying to get the resin catylized right for the heat here in vegas,so it does'nt kick off before you get achance to use it.Needles to say I have wasted a lot of resin before I learned.I have to work alot at night when laying up any glass...Hal
Well here I ground down the fiberglass on the holes I filled
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I mixed up some resin and micro baloons to fill in the low spots,from where I had ground the fiberglass.
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I then block sanded the resin/microballoon filler and washed the boat out from all the acumillated dust.
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Ok here was My delima.I am doing a pump swap and a set back.I am swaping from the jucuzzi 12Wj that was in the boat To a Berk 12jg. The intake hole for the jacuzzi is wider than the berk intake ,the bolt holes are'nt even close,and I really did'nt want to just patch the front of the set back, So, I decided to just glass in the entire hole and start from scratch.
This is the hole after bulling the intake and cleaning the area up a bit.
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I then made a scarf cut around the perimiter of the holeand tapered it out wards ,so there would'nt be a lip inthe glass after it was built back up.
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I then took a piece of plexiglass ,sprayed PVA(mold release) on it and atached it to the bottom of the hull, over the hole.(not shown)
I then laid up alternating layers of mat and cloth,using laminating resin,until the hole was built back up flush with the top of the inside hull.The laid one final lyer over the entire bilge area inside the stringers.
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In this pic You can see the plexiglass attached to the bottom.with the PVA the plexi just pulls right off without sticking.
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After I got the intake hole glassed in I encased the transom wood in two layers of mat and one layer of clothI used one solid piece all the way accross the pump hole.I will jus cut the hole back out later.
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I then ground the floor and sanded the transom.I got the cloth a little focked up around the hole,but thats allright it will be cut out anyways.
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I then did a llitle work block sanding the repairs around the insides of the gunnels and dash.I also found acouple of spots that I wanted to give a little atention to on the rear of the deck and transom.
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Just when I thought I might be getting close,I got another hair brained idea.I decided to go head and cap the hull,instead of having a rub rail.I also needed to fix some stress cracks on the lower side of the hull.
The hull was already capped for the most part, from the factory.However it was cracked in some areas and I needed to fix the holes fron the rubrail also.
I started by v-grinding along the cracks and holes between the deck and hull.I then laid in layers of glass building it back up to just a little high.
I then ground the glass down a little and finnished by block sanding.
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I then skimm coated the cap with filler and block sanded again and then primed.
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These holes were bugging me.I thought that since ihad filled all the other holes ,I may as well fill these alsoI also found a few areas on the transom that needed some more attention.
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I ground out the holes and bad areas and filled with glass.
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I block sanded the repairs ,then skimmed the entire transom with filler and block sanded again.
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