Hope you'all doing well-its been rainy here for a couple of days but it looks like its going to clear up and we'll have a nice weekend.......some of you might remember me commenting on my rotted sea hood and how it had to be rebuilt..? Well its done, finally, so I thought that I'd do the before and after photos. If you look at the first photo, its so obvious that this hood has been rotted for a long time...unfortunately for me the jack-leg marine surveyor that I hired totally missed this glaring defect along with ALOT of other things. In retrospect, I'm sure that he and the other other jack-leg involved, the yacht broker, were in cahoots. I won't mention names but if anyone is interested contact me off this forum and I will be happy to tell who these guys are. Take a look at Photo #1. What a mess! The plywood core under the teak overlay was mush......I didn't know that teak could rot but some of the teak strips were dry rotted and basically sawdust-I totally dismantled the sea hood and thankfully could salvage the frame. Photo #2 shows partway into the rebuilding process. Photo #3 shows the project pretty much done and ready to finish and make look nice. I decided not to go back with teak strips over ply but to construct a laminate of 1/8 inch epoxy impregnated masonite peg board sheathed in epoxied mat and cloth. There are four alternating layers of cloth/mat/wood in the buildup. Its pretty much bulletproof.
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Just as I was about to put it all back together, on a whim I decided to peel off some Formica trim on the inside of the sliding hatch just to check it ........guess what ? ....you know it.....rotted as the bicuspids on an Eastern European hillbilly...so now the sliding hatch had to be redone.....fortunately there was some solid wood left and it wasn't such a major ordeal. Photo #4 after it was cleaned up so you can't see the magnitude of the rot.
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Finally it's done and reassembled, good as new, probably better than new, looks real good, Photo #5. I finished the top of the sea hood and sliding hatch with the same nonskid paint that is going on the decks after I get all the teak off.......But that's another story.......
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Our target time to leave, Spring 2012, is fast approaching. I am moving aboard at the end of next month.....got just a few more personal belongings to get rid of....but there is a humongous amount of work still to be done with the teak deck removal and re-nonskid of the decks. Oh well-it will get done.
You guys take care and be well. I wish you all the best for the new year and wholeheartedly hope that all of your aspirations for 2012 come to be.
Take care my friends................................Seeya...........
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