Deck – Page 5 – The Scrumble Project

What is this?

To achieve this view, I started out today with moving a lot of the BBSE (Boat building support equipment). This is required to one degree or other every time there is a new task.

This is because being an amateur I can only afford enough planks, supports, cables, lights etc. ad infinitum for one task at a time.

Enough, that’s a subject for another post.

So once I had set up all I reckoned was required, I lifted the port panel as high as the tarp would allow, and started to mix the “slow” hardener with the West, and applied the glue to the edges of the vertical panels.

Application went well, I lowered the panel. Then all hell broke loose as I struggled to get the panel on exactly, screwed and weighed down, and ensure any excess was cleaned away before it all cooked off.

Have you ever seen a kitten try to remove sticking tape from its feet? Well, if you multiplied the complexity of that task by 100 and added 100% humidity @ 45°C under the tarp, you would come close to my situation.

Naturally I have only one photo, at the end with the clean up only just completed in time to avoid sanding.

Below – with all the bits and pieces laying about I just took off for the pool to try to lower my core temperature.

I had already noted the large lumps and smears of glue all over my clothes. They went for a vinegar wash and then I discovered, well past the cook off time, a huge lump of resin smeared on my head. More vinegar and more hair loss.

After cooling down I had a few hours of domestic tasks and then this evening I took some photos to show how the panel has created four compartments. The filleting and taping inside is yet to come, immediately after securing the starboard panel!

Below – here’s that view again – the laundry compartment lit up inside through the deck hatch cut out.

Below – the laundry’s new overhead and hatch cutout.