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

[GringoJohn]

Today was a bit better. We went after the glass first thing in the morning and had everything glassed in by 9am.



And with the hot morning sun here, that was pretty dry by 10:30 so we went ahead and painted on resin with MicroSpheres to fill in all the bi axial weave.









And while the guys were doing that, i started on the steering piston / rudder bracket install.



We started with putting a piece of 1/2 corecell on the transom, then three layers of 1708, then another 1/2 corecell, then 5 layers of 1708. The idea is we are going to take a hole saw and pull off the outside layer of corecell where the bolts go through to hold on the bracket, and then put the foam back in and glass over it from the outside, hiding the bolts. I'm not a very good explainer, but as we progress I'll post photos and it'll make more sense. Here's the finished transom ready for the bracket:



And then i broke out my Ghetto welding skills and started welding some 2 inch stainless that was in the shop to make it 4 inch and started building the bracket!



I'll post some more pictures tomorrow, this looks like it will be our last week of intense work, i will probably do stuff by myself, but the pace is about to slow down so i don't burn much materials. Got two days left, I have to bring a friend to Panama on Thursday so not much time to get this thing together!