Tact Welding again… I want to be able to remove all the copper from my craft, so I decided on the extra day to let the tack weld set, remove the wire, then add the seam tape. Here is the syringe i used for the tack welds. ( i actually cleaned this out with Goop from the last go around.. still works!!)

Lining it all up… one last time. I spent a solid hour lining the deck onto the hull this time. It fit reasonably well, but it took time to clean out the holes to add the copper.

I have NO idea what this was doing in this photo!!

I spent about an hour cleaning up the edges of the deck (trimming fiberglass, dremeling edge smooth) and then spent some time poking holes (photo: w/ pliers and a nail) through the glass to feed the copper stitches through.

Now for the fiberglass in the underside…  Went on fairly well.. the lights definitely helped again here.. (adding heat for curing.)

I took some time and sanded down all the little globs of epoxy that I made a mess with when I added the hatch rims.  Then added the fillet to the underside of the deck.  Cold for end of April here.. 45F.

Now on to the ends. Fiberglass Tape was used here… I’m not crazy over the stuff… (thick edges) but i guess it beats frayed glass all over the place.

Fiberglass the inside (cockpit area only).. you can see my lights here to both serve as light, and heat for the epoxy, outside temp about 50F and rainy.  Surface temp of craft ranged from 60F at the ends to 90F under the big light (250w)

Fillet joints.  This went well here.. no worries over the neatness the first time around.. i used an automotive bondo (sic) spatula to clean up the mess.

Prep’ing the joints for fillets. I sanded a few rough spots where the tack weld job got a bit carried away.  And I added the masking tape on the cockpit to try and keep my mess down.. it helped some..

Here we go… more epoxy work… “peanut-butter” was used to stick all the layers together here.. the hatch spacer and the hatch rim/lip will stay clamped to the inverted deck over-night.