The coamings now have the four fibreglass winch bases cut in and bogged in place ready for the final glass reinforcement. The first job today was to trim the excess glass from the last two winch bases and vacuum up the fibreglass dust. I took the port coamings to the garage to cut the holes for the winch bases. Before fitting the bases I trimmed the excess plywood from the joins and vacuumed up the wood dust. Because I could turn the coamings around I found it easier to power plane the excess plywood in the garage than it would have been if they had been glued to the deck. Once the port coamings were ready to fit the winch bases I retrieved the starboard coamings from the hull and finished the fairing on those. I reused the temporary supports from under the starboard coamings on the port side and there is a photo to show how they fit. Several vacuum cleans of the garage later the winch bases were ready to bog in place. Even with winter hardener the epoxy filleting around the bases was going to take all afternoon to cure and I had other jobs to do. I have been putting off finishing the sugar scoop stern because it is a fiddly job and there is not much progress to show. However with mates coming tomorrow to help fit the inside liners there was a deadline to meet to glue all the pieces into place. The task was neither as difficult or as time consuming as I had anticipated and in a short afternoon they are all glued in place. I have used the final capping plywood as a gluing guide for the infill pieces. By temporarily screwing the capping plywood in place and by protecting it with kitchen paper I was able to clamp each of the pieces to the plywood capping piece. Tomorrow when the glue has cured it should be a quick tidy up before fitting the inside liner of the sugar scoop stern. As a bonus the capping pieces are ready to go and the wood dust is vacuumed up too.
The underside of the starboard coamings showing the temporary supports which held the winch bases in place while the bog cured. The temporary supports were reused on the port side.
Four winch based for our Didi 40 Cr. The coamings have been trimmed in the garage.