Bass Relief- A Seafari 25 rehab

[FishStretcher]

I hate grinding. I think I spent 5-6 hours with a 4-1/2 inch angle grinder with 40 grit flap wheel. And I got something (fiberglass, of course) in my eye, despite the glasses and the moon suit. Looks like nothing major, thankfully. And I look like I went to a paintball gun fight wearing nothing but jeans and a t-shirt. Little circular bruises everywhere. Laying on stringers all weekend will do that to you.

I slipped with the angle grinder and went thru the tabbing into the first layer of woven roving on a stringer. Nothing big, but I will patch it up. Thankfully, the stringer tabbing looks ok. I think this boat was a trailer queen, and damage is from storage, not flying off waves.

Then I grit blasted some. That is very effective. But I had to level out the surfaces for the foam spacers first. What a PITA. But it looks good now.

I also got the carbon fiber deck stiffener laid up. I managed to put a 3/16" crown in it (the right way!) for better deck runoff.

I may add one more bulkhead forward- or at least prep while I am in there- maybe CF over foam, as I forgot I has so much cloth laying around. Then I have to hustle to get this done before July 4.