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Any Suggestions on How to Do This?
« on: July 13, 2009, 11:23:20 AM »
I am finally nearing the end of my "bite off more than I can chew" project. I did an extreme makeover boat edition to my Apollo. Changed the whole rear end from an enclosed engine/deck to a tournament ski style. So I have this small little storage lid and I need to re-glass the openings on either side of this lid.

I need your ideas on how to fill this area in. There are curves going everywhere. These areas will be attached to the hull not the lid. Ideally, I'd like to end up with just a shell thickness (1/4") as if the factory laid this up back in '74. However, I am also OK with there being some kind of foam backing underneath the exterior surface. Whatever gets the job done, looks good after paint, can take some drunk idiot standing on it...

Thanks everyone!
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Re: Any Suggestions on How to Do This?
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2009, 02:34:51 PM »
ss piano hinge and make an access door maybe
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Re: Any Suggestions on How to Do This?
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2009, 11:01:38 PM »
ss piano hinge and make an access door maybe

X2 Steve, But I'd use a pair of hidden (Invisible) cabinet door hinges on each side.

Don't mind me, just trying to fathom what you got there so far and where you're going with it, (my minds on 4 different boats right now). Might have another idea for you when I think about it! lol.

Ray
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Re: Any Suggestions on How to Do This?
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2009, 07:55:41 AM »
I guess I must not have explained myself very well. In the photo, there is a yellow circle around a "hole". There is one on each side of my transom area. This hole is where I cut away top engine deck back when I started my engine relo. Now, (years later) I have designed and fabbed a new transom area. There is a bulkhead/rear seat back which you can see in the photos. There is also a hinged lid which you can see in the photo on the left.

Now all I have left to do is fill in the openings on either side with glass. I just don't know how to do this because I'm not thinking like a guy in the prototype department of a boat manufacturer. One thought I had was to somehow plug the holes with foam, then shape the foam to blend in with the contours of the hull deck. Then I would have to figure out how to shave the surface of the foam down below the final surface so that I could add cloth and resin back to come up to the surface and feather into the surrounding hull deck glass.

I guess this job is kind of like trying to re-glass the intake opening for the pump. If you took out the pump intake you would have a (simple) hole in the bottom of the hull. If you wanted to fill this opening, (b4 cutting a new hole), how would you do it? In my case, the shape of the opening is much more complicated than the intake hole example...
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Re: Any Suggestions on How to Do This?
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2009, 08:28:52 AM »
Sounds like your on the right track by making a mold of the hole using foam.  You could probably sand the foam to get the contour you desire.
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