1088 wrote:
Day of sun, day of rain, day of sun, day of rain,.. I'm back inside
the breathtakingly spacious cabin of my 23' yacht with it's many
luxury appointments getting ready to stick up some stained plywood
panels I made. It's 3mil 1088 Okume ply. (hence the rakish moniker for
this phase of my "refit".)
The back of the old stuff was just smeared in a haphazard pattern with
a pale yellow paste that dried hard as iron and has to be ground off
with diligence and firm language wearing haz-mat headgear. The boat
was built at Cowes.
So,.. I'm gluing plywood to rough, scabby old fiberglass. What would
be easy to apply for a person working alone? I use telescoping plastic
shower curtain rods for clamps, or I guess it would be the reverse of
clamps. Liquid nails? 5200, 4200, sikoflex 216, 61a? Cheap, good and
readily available would be great but if anything buzzes or rattles
when the engine runs I will jump overboard.
Ok, the spell check is complete, I had 6 errors.

When I lined my SC22 with underlay, I rough scratch sanded cleaned
with acetone, then used construction adhesive, backed up around some
edges with trim of verola door jamb material (looks like mahogany)
screwed on from the outside with SS countersunk robertson head
screws. Neat job. Some shelf hangars were hung by bolts down
through the side decks.

On the Tyler 29, some verola wood strips below the windows were
screwed on from the outside, and helped form fronts for under deck
bins. Worked out beautiful, and cheap. Some areas around the
window were left with the old fabric finish. Not all done, yet.

Terry K