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Got a little more done this week, hopefully this weekend I will get more done. Thursday night I cut the piece of Nida Core to shape using the cardboard template I made. Last night I put a piece of 6mil plastic over the mold I built from some 2x4's and hardboard and laid her up.
As I was digging out foam a couple of weeks ago I found the reinforcement members that Mako built on the underside of the floor still in the boat. The members that Mako built looked like 1 x 4, so I grabbed a few boards and cut them to match the camber of the existing floor. The 1 x 4's were bonded to the floor skins with thickened resin. Fillets were laid along the edges and everything was covered with the following: A layer of 1.5oz mat, 2415 tabbing, then a layer of 1808. The pics were taken before the 1808 layers. I snapped them during a coffee break between layers while my hands were clean. I put a second layer of the 1/2" nida under the edges of the hatch area, and under the drain channels. These are covered with either 2415 (except the port side drain channel, I had a piece of 1808 that was just the right size, so she went in there.
I also tried to get the bilge painted. I'm using Interlux Brightsides. You can see exactly how far one quart of paint got me. I ran out right there. Will have to get some more this week and finish it up Saturday. I have not fully decided where I am going to foam and what I am going to leave open for access, but I want to make that bilge look as clean as possible. Nothing says obsessive compulsive like a clean bilge.
Last weekend I took the floor piece and glued it in with some thickened resin. Stacked some blocks on top of the bonding points and let it set. This weekend I spent Saturday laying fillets around the perimeter. I left a gap between the floor and the hull sides of about 1/4" when I built the floor piece. This was done so I could fill that gap with the thickened resin mix used for the fillets to hopefully keep the effect of the hard spot created by the floor to a minimum. After the fillets set up overnight I laid up the floor skins with 2 layers of 1808. I have some fairing to do but the all in all the whole thing did not come out that bad.
