Hi all.
I decided to add a skirt to the outer perimeter of the duckboard.
Simply cut up some pine I had lying around to make a former which was then epoxied under the duckboard, smoothed off then glassed:
Here is the "former" pine cut to shape and attached to the underside of the duck board:
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After the epoxy had gone off, I shaped and smoothed the attachments and gave it 3 layers of basalt glass:
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When that had dried off sufficiently, I ground off all the dags and test fitted to the pod:
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I'm pretty happy with the results.
Next, I will get the alloy strap and S/S bolts and fasten the pod and then (maybe) construct the water tank and try to get the lid glassed on and the outside of the pod glassed to the hull.
Then, the boat will be getting very close to the end of the structural build.
Only a couple things left to do.
I'd like to deepen and strengthen the anchor locker so an LSM drum winch will fit and mount properly, and the way the rear deck that caps off the transom is mounted is hideous, so I'll have a look at that and probably widen the deck by about 150mm, which will have everything at the aft end of the cockpit lining up correctly.
More soon...