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The deck is almost finished, it has been sanded & had the planking lines added as well as the first coat of Spar Varnish. Like the Mt Gay 30 before it I’m sure it will take several coats to build up a decent high gloss finish. The first coat has all but disappeared into the timber grain.
Hopefully she will be ready for water trials very soon.
Finally, with some grateful assistance of Gerald who suggested using a disposable cake piping kit to lay the epoxy where it was needed to join the deck to the hull, the deck is now epoxied in place.
I couldn’t find a disposable piping kit but a re usable one was under $10.00 and by fitting a freezer bag inside it to hold the epoxy it has survived to pipe another day.
The epoxy was quite thick so all the weights & bars etc are to press the deck firmly in place while curing occurs.
Now just need to wait for the epoxy to set (18 to 48 hrs) and then get back on with finishing the build.
Looking very nice Phil, hopefully I’ll get the deck epoxied onto mine tomorrow so I should be back sailing A’s in a week or two.
Today’s voting is ready to post but I’ll wait till after tea just in case our intrepid Overseas correspondent Hoppy wishes to add a video from his neck of the woods.
I’ll wait till 7:30 just in case he is out sailing again in the lovely summer weather of the Philippines.
I think you may have a “k” too many Stephen, with 900kg of thrust you would be dragging the bench across the workshop.
Good info here Ron
It’s getting close now !!
All the deck fittings have turned up from the Radio Sailing shop and even the new alloy rudder arm arrived today from downtown China.
Just as well I have high ceilings in the Rumpus Room because even so, fully rigged, I only have 50mm clearance from the mast crane to the ceiling.
With a bit of luck & a stiff breeze the deck should go on this weekend (hopefully).
I got some 24 hr epoxy with a 1 hour pot life to epoxy the deck in place, figured it was never going to work out well if I tried with the 5 minute epoxy that I’ve been using to date for the build.
