Day 36

The hatch gutters cured beautifully overnight.  They feel pretty lightweight, though, they still have the inside layer of glass and fillets yet to add.

Today we glued the hatch gutters into the boat.  They went in nearly perfect.  Just one side hatch was a little tricky, hopefully it won't prove to be too much of a problem when we add the hatch lid.

In this pic you can see the little wooden wedges under the gutter that we used to keep the gutters in place.  We hot glued the wedges onto the thwarts and they just snap right off once we're done with them.  It was a pretty good way to go.  They enabled us to apply the glue to the gutters then just drop them right into place.  We then went back and clamped key points to true everything up.

This is what the boat looks like when we left the shop for the night.  Its pretty tricky, trying to get around in there.  It will really help to get the deck on.

I kept falling over today in the boat.  I wear these old pair of crocs that are about two sizes too big.  I can't get them to clear the thwarts and they kept getting stuck in the hatches

Last thing we did was glass the underside of the deck pieces.

The long piece in this pic will be the starboard deck.
The large square is for the port deck.
The little narrow piece is also for the port deck.

The square is part of the port deck.
The other piece is the deck around the stern hatch.

This is the deck for the bow hatch.
We didn't get it glassed today because we are glueing the two halves together.  Would have been nice to use one big piece of ply but we didn't have a piece big enough.

The two halves were lamelloed, glued and pined with the dogs.

One side note: The resin side of the dispenser stopped working again.  I'm sure because of the cold, though we kept it next to the heater.  The fix was much simpler this time.  If I made boats more often I would invest in some sort of dispenser heater.  Its time consuming to undo the thing.