SV Restless

 

Saloon overhead, including hatch trim. I like the ship lap look in an overhead, so went to home despot and bought a couple of pieces of bead board, and used them to make a plug and then cast about 35 fibreglass panels, each 32" x 8'. White gel coat, then 3 layers of 1 1/2 oz. mat. With 2 plugs I could do 2 in the morning on a Saturday and 2 in the afternoon... but the problem was that it was November, cold, and the ones in the morning. even mixed hot, came off too soon in order to do another set. I stacked them vertically, and didn't realize until much later that most of them had taken a set with a curve the wrong way as they cured. So when I actually installed them, most of them drooped in the middle and looked like hell. So I took them all down, and this time made a curved form which matched the deck camber, and put top hat stiffeners in carbon fiber every foot or so on their back, or top, side. This took the droop out of them and they look much better, but it took about 1 1/2 hours each, and I could only do 1 per night after work. I could have eliminated the whole problem by curving the original plug to the deck camber, but I wasn't smart enough to figure this out until after the fact. Next