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Cockpit

Here it is:

a cockpit with an Edson pedestal

I have already removed the steering pedestal because it had taken too much space in the cockpit. Back to the tiller steering!

fiberglass repair fiberglass repair

The first weekend in March was warm and I successfully repaired the hole made for the pedestal in the cockpit floor. This was my first fibreglass repair work since I was a teenager. It went ok. There is nothing special about it. I attached a piece of plywood underneath to support the fiberglass sandwich, then put one layer of fibreglass matt, another layer of cloth wetted in West System epoxy until the hole was filled to the top. Next day I ground the excess of it and faired some voids and minor holes with epoxy and thickening additives. Then sanded and painted with one part polyurethane Interlux enamel.