This blog will document the restoration of Cape Dory Typhoon (Weekender) Hull #1044. The Cape Dory Typhoon is a great sailing small-scale 'yacht', and offers a very friendly experience for her captain and crew. The scope of this restoration project will be painting the interior, deck and topsides, as well as fabricating new teak brightwork.

Saturday, October 28, 2017

Sanding Locker Lids, Deck and Hull & Cabin Sole Core Work

October 28, 2017



I started early this morning with a quick water-wash of the previous fairing application and then proceeded to sand the cockpit locker lids.  I used the RO sander to hit the larger surfaces, and then transitioned to hand-sanding for the tight inner radius of the inside corners and for careful shaping of the outside corners.  With that taken care of, I vacuumed the surfaces and wiped down the surface with solvent to remove the remaining dust and prep for a coat of 'neat' epoxy.  But for now I had an appointment to get to which, so I closed the shop for the morning.



With my appointment taken care of, I returned to the shop and got straight to work on sanding Joule's topsides and deck.  The fairing work on Joule's topsides, deck, and cockpit are drawing to a close.  My hope is to get a protect primer coat on at least her topsides by this weekend...but alas, we shall see.  I did not snap and photos of the post-sanding session, but recall the smoothness of a newborn's honey :)  I did in find a few areas that required spot fill work, so while I prepared the cabin sole for coring I prepped those areas for fill by wetting them out with straight ('neat') epoxy.  With those spot fill areas prepped, I then wet out the bottom skin of the cabin sole.  Prior to wetting the cabin sole bottom skin out I did do some sanding and removal of more rotten core.  The line you see emerging from the bilge is holding a brace the length of the cabin sole in order to help it retain its shape during the recore work.



With the bottom skin ready to receive new core, I moved back to the shop to mix thickened epoxy to bed the new core material.  I started by pushing thickened epoxy into the edges, and pushing narrow width strips into and underneath the edges (areas that I have ground a taper for tabbing the new topskin to).  I then filled in the inner field with the larger core pieces.



Before closing the boat up for the night, I laid a sheet of plastic over the new core and applied some weight to keep the core and bottom skin the 'best of friends'!



Returning to the shop, I mixed a pot of neat epoxy and with a foam brush applied a sealer coat on the cockpit seat locker lids.  I will be reinforcing the locker lids tomorrow by glassing in a small stringer on the underside of the lids.



Before closing the shop for the evening, I put a coat of thickened epoxy on the top of the companionway slide hatch.  Fabricating the brightwork is just around the corner!



Total Time Today 6.75 hrs

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