Put in a couple of hours on Sunday, just wanted to see how the boxes would turn out and Harold called me in the morning saying he was bored, so we put the faces on the boxes and tried them out on the tower.
This was just putting the face on where the GPS and stuff goes. We left that on the table last night with carbon fiber on the back of it drying, so the inside is 100 "fibered" (I would say glassed but it's not glass?)
But when I put it where it went, it just didn't have the right form. There wasn't much shade at all for the electronics/gauges, and the rim was just ugly.
So we went back over to the table and added a hood on the front and cut a little foam off of the bottom of the box and came up with this, I like this one and tomorrow we'll go ahead and fiber these things:
This is what it looks like straight on while you're driving the boat, angle is perfect. And even with the sun low in the sky and behind me, the electronics still got some cover. Noon time and the GPS will have full shade, and if we're moving they won't get too wet either. Even with three hours difference between this picture and the one above (the one above was like 1pm sun), the new box had more shade. If I had taken the pictures at the same time, the new box would have 100 percent shade on the electronics.
And then I put a couple of holes in the transom where the live well will drain. The top edge is cored with core cell, but where we put the holes is just all glass. We sealed it anyways with the same black tinted Gelcoat we used inside the live well.
And then in order to get access to the rudder and piston, we had to make an access hole in right below the live well. When I'm done with that, we'll figure something out to close it, like a hatch or maybe we can silicone on a thin sheet of glass or something.
And then we thought it looked a little better and we painted the inside with the rest of the black GelCoat we made. Why not?
