Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Deck Repair



In order to repair the underside of the deck it was easier to flip the boat than try and work on our backs have epoxy drip in our face.  Turned a lot of heads taking her down the road.



Blocked it up high enough to crawl in.



The view from the inside...  The plan is to put balsa wood with mesh attached over the hole and then epoxy it in.  To fill an open area like the old hatch you have to use clear tape to completely cover the hole on the outside.  You can only use clear tape any other tape will affect the curing of the epoxy.  You spread the epoxy down on the tape, then lay the mesh and balsa, then epoxy over that. (Easy right??) I am told this will make a rock solid deck.  We were going to use marine plywood, but when we talked to an expert he said to use balsa.  It is lighter and will flex to the contour of the deck.  ( I will put pictures of the supplies up with my next post)  Once we get the old hatch hole repaired we will cut the hole for the new hatch.  Why not just put in a new hatch that would fill the hole??? The deck was soft for one and needed support, secondly the guy who cut the old hole made a mess.  I couldn't find a hatch under $500 that would fill the hole.  He had a piece of tinted glass and a rubber gasket covering the hole that kept the rain out but if you stepped on it you would end up below deck.












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