Odo back home & the fiberglassing continues
january - march, 2022
With Odo back in the garage, I about fiberglassing the seams of the decking and gutters around the hatches.
the calm before the fiberglassing mess...
sanding the edges in preparation for fiberglass
improvising a dust-collection system
the messy, messy business of fiberglassing
the edges glassed, you can see the patches filling the screw heads
building the hatch lids
Though I had the frame lids already cut out of plywood, I still needed to build the frames for them. This required a bit of semi-precise joinery as I had to get them to fit nicely into their gutters while leaving space for the hinges.
The frames were glued in place in the gutters to ensure a good fit (since nothing on a boat is truly square).
milling the frame material on my little table saw
gluing up the frame for the front hatch
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fitting & gluing the other hatch frames
I used popsicle sticks to help hold the frames in place during gluing
wax paper helped keep the epoxy from making a mess and the frames from getting stuck in the gutters
deck primer
I spent hours sanding and leveling the fiberglass in preparation for painting. The day the primer went on was a welcome one because it meant the end (or close to) of sanding fiberglass which, I admit, was probably the least enjoyable part of the boat-building process.
