alb40
Well-Known Member
Here's last weekends project – the roof to my rear cabin!
I have a very simple reason for posting this – I’m just showing what a 22 year old with very little woodworking know-how can do by taking a little time and just having a go at some work on their wooden boat! I’ve done a lot of work to the boat so far, but this is probably the most major task I’ve undertaken so far apart from stern gear replacement.
When I got the boat, the previous owner said that the sheathing needed to be replaced on the cabin roof. Now 18 months on after I got the boat, I decided to make the most of the sunny weather.
So off I set to strip back the old sheathing. Luckily, it was a bodge up of polyester resin, so it peeled off in big sheets. The port side was first, and it looked ok overall, but had some rot in the ply near the wheel house and at the aft end.
More stripping later revealed that a lot of the ply was very much fooked. It was crumbling away and some of it had been bodged by injecting spray expanding foam between the headlining to hold the fibreglass. Not good.
The more observant of you will also note that the old ply had been nailed (!!) to the beams! Luckily, a lot of the beams remained in good condition, but the roof had sagged in the middle where some of them had become delaminated. These were repaired as necessary but I couldn’t get rid of all of the sag, so I choose to live with it, it’s not a new boat after all! So here she is, now down to the beams
I was now armed with new 9mm plywood.(I chose to use exterior grade stuff, as it was cheaper and easier to get hold of than marine ply, and I didn’t deem the extra cost worth it. I was going to coat it with some epoxy resin and cloth anyway to protect it and waterproof it. I used to wood filler to tidy up the gaps in the edges so I didn’t get dips in my epoxy.
So here is the progress so far:
I’m planning on finishing the epoxy on the weekend, and then it can be painted. I think I’ll use Blake’s white deck paint, as it cleans easily and is non slip. I prefer the flat colour too rather than an in your face gloss!
Any further comments and suggestions as welcomed BTW….
Oh… and please excuse my delightful (but very dead) neighbour!
I have a very simple reason for posting this – I’m just showing what a 22 year old with very little woodworking know-how can do by taking a little time and just having a go at some work on their wooden boat! I’ve done a lot of work to the boat so far, but this is probably the most major task I’ve undertaken so far apart from stern gear replacement.
When I got the boat, the previous owner said that the sheathing needed to be replaced on the cabin roof. Now 18 months on after I got the boat, I decided to make the most of the sunny weather.
So off I set to strip back the old sheathing. Luckily, it was a bodge up of polyester resin, so it peeled off in big sheets. The port side was first, and it looked ok overall, but had some rot in the ply near the wheel house and at the aft end.
More stripping later revealed that a lot of the ply was very much fooked. It was crumbling away and some of it had been bodged by injecting spray expanding foam between the headlining to hold the fibreglass. Not good.
The more observant of you will also note that the old ply had been nailed (!!) to the beams! Luckily, a lot of the beams remained in good condition, but the roof had sagged in the middle where some of them had become delaminated. These were repaired as necessary but I couldn’t get rid of all of the sag, so I choose to live with it, it’s not a new boat after all! So here she is, now down to the beams
I was now armed with new 9mm plywood.(I chose to use exterior grade stuff, as it was cheaper and easier to get hold of than marine ply, and I didn’t deem the extra cost worth it. I was going to coat it with some epoxy resin and cloth anyway to protect it and waterproof it. I used to wood filler to tidy up the gaps in the edges so I didn’t get dips in my epoxy.
So here is the progress so far:
I’m planning on finishing the epoxy on the weekend, and then it can be painted. I think I’ll use Blake’s white deck paint, as it cleans easily and is non slip. I prefer the flat colour too rather than an in your face gloss!
Any further comments and suggestions as welcomed BTW….
Oh… and please excuse my delightful (but very dead) neighbour!
