On Tuesday we removed the roughed in cockpit and I took the disc sander to the inside of the hull. There were lots of epoxy drools from the repeated coring, filling, glassing, and smoothing of the deck and house and these were ground smooth. Areas where the cockpit bulkheads and frames would be glassed to the hull were sanded to get to the original fiberglass hull, hoping for a strong bond.
We put the cockpit framing back in the hull and I mixed batches of epoxy thickened with West 410 and Marjorie made fillets where the plywood met the hull.
I planed and sanded the curved, laminated, mahogany coaming. It looks pretty good. There were two places where the thin planks had not been entirely squeezed together. I cleaned these "cavities", filled them with epoxy, and clamped them.
On Wednesday Marjorie applied 3 inch fiberglass tape where plywood met the hull. I worked on designing and building storage under the cuddy cabin.
It is exciting to see our ideas take shape
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