Its been a bit warm this week

Apologies for the late post but a few other things got in the way, it has been a pretty warm week and not a lot has been done I put up an awning over the cockpit drank some tea and in between I did a few more gelcoat repairs I haven't included any photographs as it is pretty straightforward stuff, grind out and then add as many coats of gelcoat as required to fill the voids followed by the final coat with 2% wax in styrene added to exclude the air so as to allow the gelcoat to fully cure. Once it had fully cured it's just a case of sanding it back.

I did investigate the bilge access hatch in the heads with a view to recovering the plywood, it was covered in some vinyl imitation planking material which was well past its sell by date, breaking away at the edges and badly stained with various sticky stuff.

Bilge access hatch

I removed the vinyl using a chisel to peel it off, the next task was to remove the contact adhesive I find that the tungsten carbide pull scraper will remove the majority of the stuff with a little bit of effort I then finished off with some 80 grit green paper.

Hatch all cleaned up

Because there is a shower in the heads I plan to coat the hatch with epoxy before re finishing the upper surface, I have some Dek King fake teak left over from a project on my previous boat unfortunately there is not quite enough however I have just enough if I use a couple of pieces of Tek Dek which is almost identical except that one is very slightly wider than the other, the Tek Dek was left over from a project on an even earlier boat, Nina the Hurly 22.