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Howdy! Well, finally got around to my V berth ceiling "solution." I epoxied in pieces of Cedar shaped in various squares, trapezoids, and triangles. Smeared in thick, pasty mat and epoxy mix where gaps were. Then glassed it all, haphazardly, with bondo, mat and biaxial fiberglass. Later I ...

Voyager of Atoms:
Your video was very helpful! Yes, lithium/tesla battery: too much $!
Decided to just do a DC boat-makes it much easier.
Great idea about the wiring.
Thank you very much.

Hi All, Whew. That took awhile! 3+ months? jeeze! Had to take care of the intricacies of liquidating real estate, relocation, etc.   Anyway, have collected materials needed to fiberglass interior. Was about to begin, when I realized it'd look better if the electrical systems wiring were underneath t...

THANK YOU!

Have had way too much to do besides working on boat. Pictures of dry fit and roller furling; it has a bend in it that looks inoperable? I have never used roller furling, and am pretty sure I will get rid of it and just have simple hank on stays.

That's what I thought.
I will get some balsa squares for the area above the V berth, and the same type of plywood I removed for starboard beam deck.
Thanks!

Onions, hee hee found a couple boxes filled with these like, I sanded down the glossy side- it was for tiling the library years ago- was trying to decide if I could use them as core material- they have 2 wires on the back- each piece has 7 individual pieces, easily separated- they seem like they'd a...

Well, had to get my "Orcas in a row" first, so got my workbench out of storage and set that up; then had to make more sawhorses for another work surface. Might be able to score some scaffolding to have the deck at waist level, but we'll see...

OK, great. Thanks again for the encouragement. Now I just have to buy materials, and continue opening this "can of worms."

Found this West System Manual online:

https://www.westsystem.com/wp-content/u ... l-2015.pdf

I looked at section 5.2.1 Re-bonding the skin, page 36

Comments?

OK-thank you SO MUCH for your input, and advice! yep, that's unfortunate, wish I had the resources to get her off the trailer bed, and then flip her easily, like a lover, but I don't... given that, could I make the epoxy thick enough to limit the dripping and cut smaller pieces of plywood sections t...

view from the ground
a bit worried about the obvious metallic stain from that seam...

here is the hole below waterline, which I think was cut out for a long shafted outboard. Part of the removed section near where the motor hung is seen.

Here is the glass and ply removed from under the starboard side deck. Will get some ply to cut
Am thinking I should use the broken pieces as a template, & the same methods I posited earlier?
Would reattaching the broken pieces of glass to the underside of the reattached ply be fine?

Removed the glass around the forward hatch. The ply there was also dry, but easily pulled away from the deck above. Again, thinking with the syringe and pull up bars, I will be able to put in new ply using epoxy? The small port window, partially seen, had only one rivet holding it in. Was able to re...

Again, here the ply was dry, but had de-laminated from the glass/deck above. So I removed the glass below. The space between the deck and the ply is big enough for me to insert a pretty good sized syringe, so figured I could inject the stuff in there so as to make the wood stick up there just fine. ...

Sorry about the delay. This is under the bow. The line where the shelf used to be is evident. There's also a section where 2 rectangular sections of ply were removed. Will be grinding this down until it can take whatever it's called to put in new ply. Have to do a template for that ... I would have ...

Hi again everyone! It's inspiring to know there are folks out there who actually know what they're doing. I hope to have the interior/exterior of the hull, rudder, mast/boom/rigging, new hardware, sails, lines, electronics, the inboard engine, the trailer, and I don't even know what else to mention,...

fotografs the day i bought it

Wonderful! Thank you! I'm working on it.

ok, so i am replying to my own message? cool. i usually talk to myself anyway, so this isn't new to me... the plywood (doug fir-balsa?)on the starboard side was still spongy so i ripped it out using a chisel, pry bar, and vice grips. the wood broke into 3 pieces, so i laid them out and will get a pa...

John Letcher design...
loved how she could pull up to a beach
as the tide receded and just sit there on her keels
secure as we fitfully rested
watching the light disappear on Mt. Baker

#1) Am I doing what I should be doing? removed all the bulkheads, and was poking around under both the beam decks, when a few of the holes started dripping, on the port & starboard sides removed most the glass from the undersides of these beam decks and exposed the wet plywood in its entirety af...