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All Hands on Deck

May 5, 2012

1st Deck Piece ready for fitting

I started the day grinding out the relief holes that I cut throughout the low points on the stringers.  That way water will be able to get back to the bilge. 

After finishing that task my brother in law Jack and his wife Sally joined Nina and I to fit and cut the pieces of the deck.  The wood is 1/2" x 4' x 8' pieces of 1 sided MDO Plywood.  Since we are splicing in the deck to meet parts of the old deck that were not rotten we had to make a few specialty cuts.  It was sure nice to have 4 people working on this as 2 of us could stay in the boat while the other 2 made the cuts necessary to fit the pieces in.


Piece 1 is now cut and ready for Red Guard.





Here is a picture of both back deck pieces that are now cut and ready for Red Guard treatment.





We finished the day with painting Red Guard (which is a water proofing membrane type paint) on the bottom sides of the deck boards and all of the cleats that are attached to the bulkheads and stringers in the boat...

TO DO LIST:
-Put foam in the hull of the boat
-Cut the other 2 deck boards
-Install Bilge Pump
-Cut a relief for the Bilge Pump
-Install Deck and screw down





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