Chesapeake 17 Hybrid Day 12

Today! sanding on the deck, marked out location for the hatches, cut out the cockpit opening!  easier than making me smaller... Rich!  Decided that the hatch openings will have some artistic marquetry onlays, that should be interesting.
Some photos...

This will be the cockpit coming pronounced "co" it's sort of a lip on the cockpit.

Cockpit is cut out!  larger than normal, the whole inside of the boat is wraped in shrink wrap so when I'm using epoxy or glue it won't stick, I'll have to take the deck off soon to install the footbraces.

Location of the hatches can be seen.

Chesapeake 17 Hybrid Day 11

Today was more work on the deck, sanding, laying out the cockpit, and sanding.
Here's some photos!

Chesapeake 17 Hybrid Day 9 and 10

Well it's amazing what a little mess creates later on.  I must have dripped some epoxy fillet onto the boat and wiped it off, when I epoxied and glassed the hull those spots showed their ugly selves. Some careful sanding down through the fiberglass into the bare wood fixed this. That was what got done Monday along with several light coats of epoxy on the whole outer hull.  Today was the beginning of cedar stripping the deck. Slow going, but progress is being made.  Oh, by the way 98 in the garage/shade!!

Fillet stain?

Another stain!

Starting the layout.

Kind of ugly now, wait until there's some sanding.

Tomorrow should about get the deck done...hopefully.

Once deck is done, the cockpit gets layed out.

Chesapeake 17 Hybrid Day 8

Progress, but slow going today.  Put the boat in the front yard so I could get the foot braces measured.  Once they were marked I drilled holes in the sides for their eventual attachment.
The deck beam was glued and screwed in place.  Drips and drops were cleaned up or scraped off. Tomorrow there's sanding inside and out of the hull, the inside will get another light coat of epoxy.

Ready to mark where the foot braces will go.

Wonder if I'll fit in it ?

Time to find out!

Maybe I'll leave the deck off?

Mark the spot!

Back to work.

Deck beam glued with epoxy that's thickened with cabosil, a very fine silica powder.

Foot brace, and the location for installation. Not too noticeable but where the marks are it has been reinforced with a strip of fiberglass and epoxy.

Holes in my boat.

Chesapeake 17 Hybrid Day 7

Sanding! getting ready to glass the hull, I'm doing this during the evening when it'll hopefully be cooler.  Once the hull has dried, tomorrow morning I'll turn the boat over and glass the cockpit area and epoxy the rest of the interior. Then during the afternoon I'll put the second coat of epoxy on the hull and prepare the deck beam for gluing.
Tomorrow will be placing the foot braces onto the sides of the hull and installing the deck beam.

Fiberglass cloth draped over the hull.

I found letting it just drape for awhile helps getting the wrinkles out and smoothes to the hull.

Saturday morning, the first coat of epoxy is on the fiberglass. The smudge looking spots on the side are a mystery? they were not there before putting on the epoxy.

Cockpit area fiberglassed and drying!

The bow is reinforced with another strip of fiberglass in anticipation of that first underwater rock I'll hit.

I reinforced the stern, not really sure
I needed to. :)

I had to make a form the radius of the deck. there are 4 pieces of Okume plywood being glued with epoxy that was thickened with cabosil. This will get fitted and attached to the hull and become a beam for the deck over the cockpit.  Done for the day!

Chesapeake 17 Hybrid Day 6

Sanding, sanding and a little more sanding.  Went through a box of 25, 150 grit sandpaper disks, smoothing off the copper wire ends tends to chew them up a little.  The hull is ready inside and out for the next step.  The end pours, this is where you make a little dam using cardboard or something like that to hold the epoxy in while it hardens. The bow and stern both get an end pour.  Tomorrow some more sanding, then possibly the first coat of epoxy on the inside.

Epoxy fillet, end pour.

My end pours are small, hopefully not too small. I'm going for a much lighter boat than my first go around.