E29 An uplifting change!

I went ahead and glassed in the old engine controls panel hole and shifter/throttle hole, as they were located in prime leak water into the boat locations. There was also another hatch near the gas fill in the starboard aft cockpit seating that got glassed in, as well as the gas-fill hole itself. This was done with a couple of pre-cured layers of 1708 as a backing plate and then 4-5 layers of 17 oz biax on the outside, with Total Boat Total Fair as the fairing compound. Some images of the process...


This have since been faired quite nicely.

I also glassed in all of the thru hulls except for the scupper and the speed log thru hull under the old hanging locker. The process was the similar, a backing plate well tabbed on the inside and 5-6 layers of 17 oz biax on the outside, followed by several applications of fairing compound. I'm going to barrier coat over these specific holes, then put new bottom paint on the boat before it goes in. The scupper hole will get glassed as well but hopefully I take more photos of the process. Hard to do while you're covered in time-bomb epoxy and you're trying to apply wet on wet..

So toward the end of this summer, I decided to segue into sharpening the saw a bit. That whole elevator thing seemed like a good idea. Two weekends later, 4 4x4 doug fir posts, a few sheets of plywood, some ronstan blocks, some dyneema, a bit of HMPE bar stock for sliders, a hoist and a gallon and a half of exterior latex..

Bam!


I have an elevator! not recommended for human usage! Disclaimer! But handles about ~600 lbs of payload!

I'm less than 600 lbs!! win!