Turning the ugliest boat in Costa Rica into a respectable 28' Center Console Diesel

[GringoJohn]

I’m finally recovering a little bit from a mean case of Strep. Everybody in the shop got it, but since I’m not from here I guess my body wasn’t ready and it really wiped me out. But now finishing up my second round of Antibiotics, I think I’m ready to start work again Today we prepped all the hatch lids for the floor, and the door to the bathroom, and the modified motor box and sprayed them with GelCoat. I think this is our last spray on the build, but we’ll see if I missed something.





This is the door to the bathroom:



And then I went by the tower shop and they have the top welded and one of the legs welded, and the other side almost built. They are really making progress. The top is going to be the most expensive part of the boat I think, we’ll have about 6K tied up in it when we’re done, and that doesn’t include the outriggers.







Tomorrow I have to go pick up a crate of corecell PVC foam for my ocean master, but Saturday I’m hoping to really hit the boat hard and start installing easy things, like hoses, steering wheels etc, so I should have a good progress pic on Saturday!