Soft spot on the roof - Part 4

It’s Saturday! I had to stay home for the day, so Sam hired is good friend Vince  to help him. Their objective is to fix the corecel today. Go guys!

(note : I don’t really believe in that plan. Sam and Vincent together have the worst karma ever. I can’t recall a single thing they did together that just « went well ».)

They first mixed ¼ of gelmat (which is basically polyester resin pre-mixed with fiberglass strands) with ¼ hardener. This create a blue-green-ish mixture that has the texture of peanut butter. Sam first spread it directly on the fiberglass; then they applied the corecell over it. Although it kind of stays there just like that, a pressure must be applied on the corecell to make sure it is as close as possible to the fiberglass and that no air bubble remain.  Since they are working upside down, they cut wooden sticks of the good lenght and squeeze them between the ground and the roof. 

Waiting time is of one hour.  Guys are leaving to get some potato chips and beer. Realizing they have no beer opener, they tried to uncap the beer with the cradle of the boat. KACHING! (first beer open! Mmmm. Thirsty!) KACHLLLAKKK…!? Second beer is broken. KACHLLAKKKK!? Third beer broken. And so on until all the beers where gone and none had been drunk. In the end, I’m glad that it’s that part they screwed up this time. ;)

Looking at the repair after the pause time, everything looks good. Sam thinks they won’t have enough  gelmat to install the other half of the corecell.   Thus…end of the day! Objective not complete, but at least, so far so good!

Time spent: 8 hours

Purchases: some 2x1 : 5$

Total time spent so far : 18 hours

Total cost so far : 420$