You're right about the checking of the plywood. Good point.

The "Cruising Conversion" of the Chebacco that I'm building is intended to
be more of a "hard dodger"/sunscreen than any intent to live aboard. I
sunburn too easily.

Crude model at http://home.earthlink.net/~derbyrm/Chebacco.html
some modules at http://home.earthlink.net/~derbyrm/Dayawl.html
and the cause of my delay at
http://home.earthlink.net/~derbyrm/barnTale.html

Roger

http://home.earthlink.net/~derbyrm
"Oddgeir Kvien" wrote in message
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Roger Derby wrote:
From your fine web site:

"Most of the inside of the boat is covered with glass and Epoxy. Due to
the curvature of the inside it was somewhat difficult to get the glass
follow the sides. This I have to sand away and replace with new glass.
After the boat is finished, this will not be visible."

I ended up making my dinghy 20% heavier than it should have been by
glassing the interior. Since then I've read/decided that the fiberglass
is only there to reinforce the epoxy. The boat's strength comes from the
plywood. Only the areas of the interior where sandy feet will be deserve
glass. (Yes, it all gets epoxy.)

I used pine plywood, and to make sure the sealing is water thight over
time
I decided to use a thin layer of glass. I learned on the net that on pine
plywood you might get minor cracks over time if you only cover it with
epoxy and use no glass.

On the bottom of the boat i have used a lot (probably to much) glass and
epoxy on both the inside and outside to make it a real sandwich
construction.

More updates will follow on my page in a few days, I am working on the
deck and the wind shield at the moment.

I have not made up my mind about if I want to have a wind scheild only or
a smal hard top, but I probably end up with only a wind shield. The hard
top I was planing is getting to big and dominating, I don't think it will
look right.

http://home.broadpark.no/~okvien-1/b...p56200001r.jpg

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Oddgeir
I'm building a boat, http://www.oddgeirkvien.com/baat