Day 13, 2/13/22, Open saturated deck section, glassing additional support for starboard lower front stay mount, 9 Hours

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 Fixed windows

Dry fit for fixed port window, find it is cut in plastic window does not fit about 5mm on long corner.  




 

Deck 

Opened deck clanking around the starboard side chainplates. found the hole was not fixed AT ALL. Previous owner just purred fist size blob of 3M 5200 and hope it will keep water from running inside.


No, it did not work!

Took out the top skin of the deck section. proportionally rotted partially heavy saturated with water.

First look is not so bad, but almost whole surface spongy wet.

Half way to cleanup

4 hours later...


 A lot of grinding and sanding, top skin was sanded as well.

In cople places i have cut little bit out of shape, will need to address these places when do re-coreing.

View from below

Chainplates received

Attempted to polish - not excellent, but looks good!




 Port side chainplate

dry fit for the new chainplate

Drill holes, drill out for bigger diameter, infill with thickened epoxy.


Starboard  side chain plate mount

Re-enforcement 3 layers 1708 from outside and 3 layers 1708 inside & 1 layer rowing-wowing from inside.



Starboard bulkhead

Bulkhead removed to make new one, but before make and install new one I need to rebuild the deck.

no tabbing was  done, only 3 bolts to inner layer and little 3M 5200 around.



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