Did the final steps today on the underside of the deck.
In the picture below you can see the underside of the stern and where the three runs of fiberglass tape end.
This is after I scraped and sanded the underside tapes.
Here is the bow end and the other end of the three runs of tape.
This is the recessed deck plate from the under side. You can see that I beveled it quite a bit. But it worked!
This is after the thickened epoxy and the three layers of tape on the gaps between the reinforcement plates, as per the Pygmy manual, and after the saturation coat. The dark brown areas are the thickened epoxy "ramps" that the manual has you make so that the tape sits better. I didn't make them very well and the tapes on the chines could be better. Oh well...
Here you can see the two layers of fiberglass added to the back, underside of the cockpit to reinforce the recessed deck plate. It's molded in forever now!
Next step is to put the deck aside and return to the hull. I'll knock out the temporary frames, work on filling the ends (more on that later as the Pygmy manual says to do this step later, but I do it now), and then fiberglass the inside of the hull. It's getting there!
Aloha!
- Scraped and sanded the tape I added yesterday.
- Added two layers of glass to the aft area of the cockpit to reinforce the recessed deck plate.
- Then rolled on a saturation coat for the entire underside of the deck.
In the picture below you can see the underside of the stern and where the three runs of fiberglass tape end.
This is after I scraped and sanded the underside tapes.
Here is the bow end and the other end of the three runs of tape.
This is the recessed deck plate from the under side. You can see that I beveled it quite a bit. But it worked!
This is after the thickened epoxy and the three layers of tape on the gaps between the reinforcement plates, as per the Pygmy manual, and after the saturation coat. The dark brown areas are the thickened epoxy "ramps" that the manual has you make so that the tape sits better. I didn't make them very well and the tapes on the chines could be better. Oh well...
Here you can see the two layers of fiberglass added to the back, underside of the cockpit to reinforce the recessed deck plate. It's molded in forever now!
Next step is to put the deck aside and return to the hull. I'll knock out the temporary frames, work on filling the ends (more on that later as the Pygmy manual says to do this step later, but I do it now), and then fiberglass the inside of the hull. It's getting there!
Aloha!
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