So we just realized we spent over 40 man-hours getting the cockpit ready for glassing. Things are going even slower that we had thought. So, in the interest of time, we have temporarily shelved the cabin top and gone topless. We did reinforce the edges of the opening, which is about the size of the normal cabin, and we are making a foam cored cover. It is now just a one piece rough moulding in the making. The battans are being held in place with the lead that eventually will be the bulb and they are supporting the foam in the right shape and a couple of layers of cloth will hopefully lock in that shape so we can glass the under side and form the edges. Then it will also be cut at the rearward seam with the front half eventually trimmed out to fit around the mast and the rear section mated to the vertical companionway hatch "board". We will evetually make up a cross support that reconnects bulkhead 89 back together and loops behind the mast. Maybe we will actually get to glass the deck this week! Then again, we do have a lot of welding to do...too bad we must do all those other things to be able to work on the boat.
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