Re: Project log : Runabout to Fishing machine
Well, Here's this weekends update. With the long weekend I was able to make some serious progress. During the week I was able to get the interior upper side panels glued in place with PL Premium.
On Friday, I cutout and glassed the backside of the lower panels and forward deck front panel. While they were curing I started playing with shapes for the side panel of the drivers console.
Saturday the front and lower side panels went in. I finalized the console shape, cut the parts and glued them all together. It will get glassed as an assembly before it goes into the boat. That way I can be sure that the console is fully sealed and so are all the parts that it will be attached to.
Today the entire cap was ground down into the original red gelcoat, and broken areas dished out, edges feathered and high spots removed. I applied 3 layers of 1708n and a layer of CSM to the nose section to build it up to match the thickness of the original cap. The top of the nose is now nice and flat all the way across. I also applied some hairy peanut butter to any of the low spots and gaps and a layer of CSM applied wet on wet around the whole cap to flatten everything out.