Had a nice super hot hour out there today with no clouds from 12 to 1, and finally the resin kicked on most of the pieces. There were a couple of spots where it wasn't drying so we just cut those sections off and cleaned in with thinner, and put all the bad places on the outside and we'll cover them with a 1708 when we do the corners. Very productive day though, i've always wanted to build a center console out of corecell, today was the most fun I've had in the shop to date. The whole console like it is now without the corner glass tie ins weighs about 30 pounds, my console on my 31 ocean master weighs about 250 pounds, so we have taken out a ton of weight! I got carried away on the pictures, i had the camera in my pocket all day.
We used these 2X4's to square everything up, and stuck everything together with cabosil and PE resin. Here's the 2X4 guides in place for the first two sections:
And then we stuck the two sections on:
And then we stuck the big board on top of the front piece, and to keep it lined up we put in three screws from the bottom while it dried. The front also had the slightest bow to it, so we straightened that up as well with some 2X4's
And here is Harol trimming up the "whisky plank" of our console
And here's the finished product. Not bad for two days worth of work (and three days of drying time on the table for bad resin!
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Tomorrow we still have to glass all the corners and cut out the door to the bathroom. I'm thinking of using the cut out for the door as the door itself, we were going to do a teak door, but the corecell door would last longer and be lighter so I think that's the route we are going to take. I hope to have this thing glassed into the boat by tommorrow night, and maybe start on the front bench?