Day 4
Technically it’s day 5 but I took yesterday off to run errands, order the fiberglass stuff ($500) and 6 colors of gelcoat (another $500).
So day 4 working on it.
Got 10” snow last night so not a huge production day.
Scraped off the last couple layers of the floor plywood from the tunnel tops. You can see the areas the floor was actually attached. Where it wasn’t, there’s super dry chopper gun fibers. They don’t even look like they were compressed. Probably an in-experienced operator not laying it down even.
Removed most of the foam that was poured at the joint. Checked the sponsons foam and all dry.
The upper deck had a couple fractures so I flipped the deck and sawed thru the tears to get everything to lay flat again.
It looks like the hull and deck were built with 2 layers 1-1/2 oz. chop mat and a 1708 stitch mat . That’s what I ordered to make the repairs.
Most of the deck is covered with stress cracks. The gelcoat will be removed and I’ll look closely for fractures in the chop mat. On the underside, the 1708 has no fracturing so that’s a good thing.
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