![]() Then Dug from the board came over for a visit and we chatted for a while. I then prepped to tab in the back side of the fishbox bulkhead as well as the front fuel tank bulkhead. I took a 1/2 day off on Friday and got into sanding the fishbox area to put down one more layer of 1708 to cover everything up, on the port side which had the stringer crack I am going to do an extra layer. My buddy has had good luck using a similar technique in his Seacraft project ![]() Overall the material will be about 3/8" thick and the 2 sides will sit over the stringers so it will be fairly easy to cut a hole in the new nida-core deck, remove 3/8" from the height where the hatch frame will sit then glass it all together from the top. Once it is holding shape, I will glass the inside. My thoughts are to use the hatch to keep the hatch frame straight when glassing together, I'll cover the areas being bonded with packing tape then clamp the hatch to the frame and make the spacing right then glass the bottom. I will need to glass it back together in 3 places as shown with the green glass. I removed all the coring material from the back side as it was all wet and started to prep to glass it back together. I was hoping to use the excess from each of the sides as there was more than enough material but the 45 cut was the wrong side and I ended up using the end making a straight cut on one side and a 45 degree cut on the other side. I put the hatch in the full frame, made marks leaving myself 3/8" extra space then made 45 degree angle cuts. Since the 1/2 hatch had 1 side with curved corners and the other with right angle corners I had to fabricate the right angle corners. When I removed the deck I saved the fuel tank hatch frame thinking that I could cut it down and reuse it with CMP's hatch.ġ/2 Hatch sitting in full sized hatch frame Years ago I traded board member CMP 2 of the cast bronze vents I wasn't using for his fuel tank hatches. Today's activity #2 - Hatch for the oversized fishboxes I am creating. įilling the Transom - Replacing Transom Core and prepping for an outboard. Issues with Stringers - This thread is my discovery of port side stringer issues as well as the work to repair / reinforce them. Motor Well Idea - This thread I am trying to figure out how I want to hang the outboard. Top Cap modification - This thread shows how I've made the cabin a bit smaller to make more deck space. Here are some of the other threads I've started on this I am converting my 1964 moppie to a center console with a single 300 outboard. ![]() This spring and summer should see a lot of progress as a lot of the bits and pieces start to come together. I'm rehabbing my Bertram 25 and have had a couple of threads on various topics and wanted to put them under one so there was only one thread to update. ![]()
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