Leaderboard

Thanks for the nice comments. I'm going to try to finish laminating the transom this weekend and then get on to the glassing. I send more photos as things progress.

The ply deck was painted on its undersurface with epoxy and glued to the stringers, foam and chine with thickened epoxy. It was fastened with raptor staples. If you haven't used them, they are fast and much cheaper than bronze screws. They are a little quirky, though. Bilge compartments painted and water tank installed. I wanted space in the transom for storage and a live well/fishbox so I modified the aft bulkhead that I had previously removed.

My project inches along and for any of you who were following, my apology for the weak performance of keeping up this page. It is a hobby, after all! The floatation foam is in, I've installed the ply flooring and designed an aft bulkhead to allow installation of a live well/fishbox in the transom. Photos to follow. I installed four backing plates made of 2 layers of 1/2 inch ply plus 18oz glass in the footprint of what will be the T-top. Since there will be no way to access the under surface of the deck later, the T-top will be fastened with SS bolts/nuts embedded into these footings (see Gougeon Brothers, 5th ed. p 136) Deck is 9mm ply, will be covered with 18 oz glass, then teak.