Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 1:58 pm
Surv69, I understand now that you have removed the inner liner. In this case I would do the following from inside.
Make a pattern of the area to be reinforced. Transfer the pattern to either 1/8 plywood or 1/16ths or 1/8th inch fiberglass panels that you can find at RV shops. Make props of 1x2s of various lengths to hold up the panel. Sand down any major roughness of the deck underside. Clean the underside of the deck with acetone or alcohol as best you can. Wet down the top side of your panel with a slow set time epoxy, place it up against the underside of the deck. Jam your props into place, insuring a tight fit every foot or so. After the panel cures for 24 hours, remove props and repeat until you have as much thickness as you desire, say 3/8ths inch. There should be very little mess on you or your interior if you spread a painter's drop cloth or plastic film to work upon.
Btw, my screen name is Night Sailor because it is often too hot to sail on TX lakes during the summer in daylight, so we set sail after sunset and go until the early morning hours, sometimes all night if it's a weekender. When I was at a dock full time, some of my dock neighbors thought we never took our boat out because they never saw us on weekend days when they did their sailing. They only sailed daylight hours and tried to be back in the berth by sunset. They had to contend wth heat enough to blister your skin on anything metal, plus jet ski, water ski and 100mph penis boat drunks, and constant wakes.
They missed the moonlight, smoother water, night birds, navigation by stars, much cooler temps.
I find sailing at night increases one's sailing skills because you have to rely more on your sense of sound, feel, smell, and hearing. And on the darkest of nights, it can be a substitute and practice for navigation in unmarked channels as if you were in a fog bank.
Make a pattern of the area to be reinforced. Transfer the pattern to either 1/8 plywood or 1/16ths or 1/8th inch fiberglass panels that you can find at RV shops. Make props of 1x2s of various lengths to hold up the panel. Sand down any major roughness of the deck underside. Clean the underside of the deck with acetone or alcohol as best you can. Wet down the top side of your panel with a slow set time epoxy, place it up against the underside of the deck. Jam your props into place, insuring a tight fit every foot or so. After the panel cures for 24 hours, remove props and repeat until you have as much thickness as you desire, say 3/8ths inch. There should be very little mess on you or your interior if you spread a painter's drop cloth or plastic film to work upon.
Btw, my screen name is Night Sailor because it is often too hot to sail on TX lakes during the summer in daylight, so we set sail after sunset and go until the early morning hours, sometimes all night if it's a weekender. When I was at a dock full time, some of my dock neighbors thought we never took our boat out because they never saw us on weekend days when they did their sailing. They only sailed daylight hours and tried to be back in the berth by sunset. They had to contend wth heat enough to blister your skin on anything metal, plus jet ski, water ski and 100mph penis boat drunks, and constant wakes.
They missed the moonlight, smoother water, night birds, navigation by stars, much cooler temps.
I find sailing at night increases one's sailing skills because you have to rely more on your sense of sound, feel, smell, and hearing. And on the darkest of nights, it can be a substitute and practice for navigation in unmarked channels as if you were in a fog bank.