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