Today was supposed to be the day to put fiberglass on the deck, and I was really looking forward to it as the beginning of the end of this project. Did a bit of final sanding around the area where the glass will wrap onto the hull. Cleaned up a couple of wire holes that I'd missed before. Ran electrical tape an inch below the shear to define where the deck glass will get cut off later, after the second coat of epoxy. No problems!
Then it was time to smooth the fiberglass over the deck, so I got out the roll of glass shipped by the kit manufacturer and began to unroll what was left from the heavier glass that did the hull. There wasn't supposed to be much left over. I kept unrolling though, and the lighter cloth never appeared because it hadn't been shipped with the kit. Grrrrrrrr......
Hopefully WD will ship me the 4 oz cloth on Monday. Otherwise it's off to a boat supplies store on Tuesday. In the meantime, so as not to waste the day i built the front and rear hatch covers and epoxied the seat back to a curved brace that runs behind the seat. Not as productive as I would have hoped but that's reality.
Tomorrow I'll finish off the hatches by installing the support bars that position the hatches on the deck and glossing the font and back, and maybe doing some of the glass on the seat back using the (way) excess 6 oz cloth that I have no other use for Then I have some waiting. Hopefully not too much.
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