So far, I'm pretty unhappy with the cooler, which is the teal box you see in front of the motor. I read somewhere that if you paint latex paint on the foam, you can glass over it...:facepalm: They were wrong. So instead I remembered I had some epoxy resin from when I was waterproofing my seats a few years back and tested it out on a scrap piece and it worked great... So I coated all the foam with epoxy but am going to use poly and 1.5 csm to really encapsulate the foam in there. The poly won't stick to the epoxy well but it will to the wood, so I'm not concerned with it separating I'm just trying to make a water tight container. I also drilled out a 1.5" hole in one of the boards and stuck a stainless steel thru hull water outlet. I will be hooking up a water pump to pump out all the water from the cooler and out one of the spare thru hull water outlets I already had on the boat. That means, no water in the bilge and easy cleanup in the cooler.
The thing I'm not happy with is where the poly ate away some of the foam, I'm filling it in with thickened resin so it will look a bit cleaner in there. I am then going to gel coat the cooler and for added protection from water I purchased some liquid flex seal to put over the gel coat.
