This Sunday's progress.

[blazeracer]

I'll be glassing this one top and bottom. The floor doesn't actually attach the the stringers. It just sits on top if them. If the floor gets attached then you can't replace it without destroying the stringers. My floor today came up just like it's supposed to. On my other boat, I left nubs from the old stringers in place, completely glassed the new stringers before setting them in, then attached them to the hull with a LOT of resin inside the original fiberglass nubs. It was rock solid when it was done.

Yeah, any entry point for water is a possibly place for rot to start. But the water needs to interact with air to rot which is why marine ply has no air gaps inside or in between the layers. But glassing top bottom and sides will keep the water out to begin with.

 

[Last Mohecian]

Yeah, any entry point for water is a possibly place for rot to start. But the water needs to interact with air to rot which is why marine ply has no air gaps inside or in between the layers. But glassing top bottom and sides will keep the water out to begin with.

Exactly.  Marine ply is also much drier to start with.  I didn't even glass my whole floor.  I coated it entirely with a couple coats of resin to encapsulate it then glassed around the perimeter where it meets the hull.

 

[blazeracer]

Well I bought marine ply so next winter I won't have to deal with a floor and hopefully be working on a 59 Belair..

 

[Last Mohecian]

Here is how I mounted my go peddle.  The seats are mounted in a similar fashion.  There are zero penetrations in my floor.  You can't really see it in the pic put there are 2 layers of glass fabric holding the floor to the hull around the perimeter.

 

 

[Last Mohecian]

Well I bought marine ply so next winter I won't have to deal with a floor and hopefully be working on a 59 Belair..

Cool.  Did you go look at that one on CL?

 

[blazeracer]

Cool.  Did you go look at that one on CL?

Nope, the guy never got back with me. I'll find one when fall comes back around.

 

[blazeracer]

Here is how I mounted my go peddle.  The seats are mounted in a similar fashion.  There are zero penetrations in my floor.  You can't really see it in the pic put there are 2 layers of glass fabric holding the floor to the hull around the perimeter.

We probably read the same how-to article on doing boat floors.. LOL

 

[blazeracer]

It's Monday, not Sunday, but our store is supposed to closed today also. Unfortunately people were coming in all day long. I did get to clean the fiberglass down the nubs on the floor, build a new drain system for under the floor and get most of the pieces of new wood cut. It's still pretty wet down there so I think I'll let is set a couple days in the open to dry out before closing it back up. Probably glass it all in on Wednesday.

 

[KONA77]

my floor was original,  no  glass on the bottom,  i put some pictures on here of the project,  i used lay up fiberglass resin so there was not any need in sanding between applications,    meaning there was not any surfacing agent in the resin like wax,  if it has a surfacing agent in the resin then each application needs to be sanded so to have both the machanical and chemical bond.... just a tid bit.... looks good  clap.gif

 

[Last Mohecian]

Looks like progress.  You'll have her whipped in no time.

 

[Crusader]

That's marine grade plywood?

 

[blazeracer]

That's marine grade plywood?

Yeah, it looks like regular plywood on the outside. It's the inside that counts. Look along the edges where the cuts are. NO AIR GAPS.