FEBRUARY 7th, 2019 I tried to make a 12in x 12in x 0.5in fiberglass laminate using polyester resin and fiberglass (bi-axial cloth 1708). The goal of this exercise is to try to come up with an affordable method to create fiberglass laminates that will be used for several purposes during this refit project (e.g. thru-hull…
Author: Carlos
I picked up a cheap vintage sewing machine (Singer 401A) from a garage sale with the hope to at least be able to sew new cushion covers. It would be nice if I could use it to refit the dodger and Bimini too but I am not sure if it will go through several layers…
We are on the planning phase of this repair. The boat had suffered damage to the bowsprit in the past and this segment of the deck had been cut away to make a repair from inside the chain locker. A triangular piece of thick glassed ply had been roughly bonded in place; you can see…
DECEMBER 2018 Getting the boat ready for the upcoming fiberglass works that we will start as soon as weather starts to warm up! We have removed the storage lockers on either side to give us access the the hull and chain plates. The cabin floor has been cut away and the water tank removed for…
The boat came with two water tanks (under v-berth and under cabin sole) and a diesel tank (under the galley sole). All of them are made of fiberglass with an interior gelcoat coat that presented blisters and some areas where the gelcoat was already chipping off. All tanks were fiber glassed to the hull. The…
The boat was sitting on the ground in Pensacola FL (USA). It was someone else’s project boat and never got finished. Well used and in desperate need of some TLC, this is how the boat looked when we bought it. It was October 2016 when we bought the boat. The interior was stuffed with…