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Day 16, 3/5/22 Starboard deck fairing (cycle 1), 6 hours

 Starboard deck Put Total boat fairing compound  and sanded. At least one more filling and sanding cycle required. Chainplates Cut openings for chainplates, chainplates dry fit, filling chainplate holes and top plates in a deck with thickened epoxy. 4 chainplates holes "processed". Companion way  Opening measurements   Sailing One and half hour single hand sail run around. Not comfortable 20-25 knots gusts with average 10 knots wind.    

Day 15, 2/19/22 DECK re-coreing step 3, fibergass gaps. 7 hours

  Starboard deck re-coring Everything ready to re-fiberglass gaps    Fibeglassed - easy to say, but it is 4 hours of pretty nasty work.  No-skid deck template  it is nice pattern, but to redo it back on the repaired area will be kind of not simple job. I have made mold  using existing deck, mold release agent, gelcoat and fiberglass. So, put mold release agent to deck, then paint with gelcoat, then put one layer of 1708 over. Unfortunately for me i took only finishing gelcoat from home,so i decided do not wait gelcoat to set in full, because NOTHING to sand, so i laminated it as soon as it turned to gel phase. Unfortunately it did not gelled everywhere and it started to flake mix with resin i put over, so did some mess. likely need to do it again. But it looks not bad even now. Original Deck surface "Negative " home made mold surface Chainplates "humps"  for the deck machined from G10 material, 2 installed, 2 need to install Starboard bulkhead, dry fit...

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

 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...