Day 77, 2/4-2/5/23 Head bulkhead bottom knee glassing, Shower walls priming - 9 hours

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Foggy morning...



 Interior

Head walls 

Adding piece of teak to add bulkhead support and close hole in between main cabin and head.

Glassing and filling was done in one cycle. Looks not perfect but filler will be sanded later.



From the main cabin just glassing. Looks not superb, but functional.

Walls priming.

This day Maria helped me a lot in sanding and priming the head interior.

Just finished priming.

And after masking tape removal...



Locker next to battery compartment.

As i wrote earlier, I found pretty big completely enclosed compartment next to battery box on port side.
I have made storage locker there. Main concern - I would like to have as much as i can access to internal side of the hull (just in case), as well storage volume always is handy. 

Some work is left there - close bottom to prevent thing go under battery box.

Structural

I found the longitudinal bulkhead dividing starboard side to locker and engine "room" tabbing completely de-laminated. Likely happened when something heavy was dropped in the locker.  Aft bulkhead tabbing de-laminated as well as Ice chest mounting to hull, so i had to cut off all of it.

And plan to tab them back.

During removing de-laminated glass, I found the tabbing was done over gelcoat layer and actually gelcoat de-laminated from the hull.

Pictures after cleaning.

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