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For those of you who attended the workshop in Nordland, I have posted some pics of the Shell Lake new floor project. If you click on my name to view my profile, the pics are shown on the right hand side. They are in the "Shell Lake floor" album. Each pic has a little description if you enlarge the picture.
At the workshop we were able to get foam under the 8 foot sheet of ply that was used for the new floor. That left a gap at the stern of about 15 inches. I have since returned to the shop twice...
Day 2: I cut a piece of ply for the stern area using the new skills acquired from Will's demonstration on pattern making. That piece got a coat of Mar-I-Tex on all sides with double coats on the edges. Then it was screwed and glued with 3M 5200. While that was curing/drying I went to work on prepping the edge of the new floor and the adjoining fiberglass hull, removing any paint so that there was bare fiberglass ready to receive the epoxy filler and eventually fiberglass tape. This required a fair amount of grinding, sanding and general noise & dust making. I also had time to drill out the foam that had bubbled forth from the workshop day foam pour.
Day 3: (With my wife in tow) I started by warming the foam chemicals with a space heater in preparation for the small stern end pour. While that was going on, and while Marty was giving Kelly the tour of the many on-going projects at the shop, I began re-plugging the foam holes in the front of the boat with epoxy. After that I mixed up more peanut butter epoxy to fill in the gap between the new floor and the fiberglass hull. Then it was time to pour foam for the aft section. I made a dam out of pattern stock to prevent the foam from just running out from under the floor.
I'll put up more pics as progress is made.
-Zachary
At the workshop we were able to get foam under the 8 foot sheet of ply that was used for the new floor. That left a gap at the stern of about 15 inches. I have since returned to the shop twice...
Day 2: I cut a piece of ply for the stern area using the new skills acquired from Will's demonstration on pattern making. That piece got a coat of Mar-I-Tex on all sides with double coats on the edges. Then it was screwed and glued with 3M 5200. While that was curing/drying I went to work on prepping the edge of the new floor and the adjoining fiberglass hull, removing any paint so that there was bare fiberglass ready to receive the epoxy filler and eventually fiberglass tape. This required a fair amount of grinding, sanding and general noise & dust making. I also had time to drill out the foam that had bubbled forth from the workshop day foam pour.
Day 3: (With my wife in tow) I started by warming the foam chemicals with a space heater in preparation for the small stern end pour. While that was going on, and while Marty was giving Kelly the tour of the many on-going projects at the shop, I began re-plugging the foam holes in the front of the boat with epoxy. After that I mixed up more peanut butter epoxy to fill in the gap between the new floor and the fiberglass hull. Then it was time to pour foam for the aft section. I made a dam out of pattern stock to prevent the foam from just running out from under the floor.
I'll put up more pics as progress is made.
-Zachary
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