Things at work lately had been getting a little mental and I'd worked the last weekend, plus many late evenings so decided to take a lieu day and go and work on the boat.
I'd been feeling like I had not been achieving much and all I seemed to be doing was cutting out rot so I decided to actually change tact on her and do some work on the rear, which I didn't think would need that much work. There are a patch of rot on the rear where someone had spliced a new piece in and not sealed it properly. I'd already pulled most of the rot out and decided to finish cleaning it up and splice in a new piece.
I was sat on board having some lunch with Karen (thanks Babe x) when I noticed daylight through the panel, I though it was just where nails have gone through, but on further examination I realised it was more rot!
I cut out the rot and decided to use epoxy, plus epoxy filler to glue in the new piece, you can see the new panel in place with the filler going off, as the new panel is slightly thinner than the old one, plus the old one has a slight curve in it, the only way I could think was to use small pieces of wood to hold it in place. The obvious problem is the epoxy, I knew the support pieces would stick so I only allowed the smallest of overlaps.
I also decided to start striping the rear panel, using nitromors a heat gun and a very, very sharp scraper. You can see the results below, the panel on the left is ready to be sanded and epoxy'd.
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