With about twenty coats of fairing compound she is starting to look pretty good. The cockpit sole is nice and solid and smooth, the cabinhouse no longer flexes when you walk on it, even with the bulkheads still out of her, and we are almost ready to start applying the fairing primer.
Just have to cut the holes for the windows and thicken up the fiberglass around the openings to make sure they are nice and flat to make a good seal. First we held the window frames up and traced the interior shape with a sharpie, then Matt did the deed and cut PERFECT openings with a jigsaw.
Here is the interior shot.
Can't wait to see it with the primer on. It already looks fabulous.
Matt even glassed over our mis-placed through hull and fixed the fiberglass we had to cut out in the hanging locker so we could fit the seacock into the limited space. Now the through hull sits right under the sink so we can seriously reduce the amount of nasty hose we have to use.
The primer is starting to go on. Can you imagine, but the boat had a pink tint to it before, which we never noticed because we had no basis for comparison.
All the hatch covers laid out on the ground with their first coat of primer drying.
Also throwing some more alkyd enamel on the stowage lids since some of them never got more than one last year and still looked pretty rough.
Coming Next -- Pics of the new handrails, companionway ladder, and misc woodwork.
Hi, James here, doing my own G26 Highland Fling. Looking over your work in the cockpit. I need to refinish mine, the floor need a few spots fixed up but over all it need sanding, refinishing and painting. Thanks for your blog. I have one of my own also on blogspot.
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