Work on Staboard Water Tank...Finally

Finally got back to work yesterday. A small cut on my calf decided to get infected with staph. So I have been battling that for the last 4 weeks. Hopefully it is truly gone because we are running out of antibiotics to throw at it. Wound care is becoming very important with this staph floating around. Anyway on to the fun.

I ground out and filled and ground out some more and filled...well you get the idea the original fiberglass work until it was reasonably smooth. Today I was able to add 3 layers of 24 oz. Biax to the bullhead at the forward end of the tank and a layer of 1.5 oz mat and 18 oz roving over the rest of it.

 The whitish-grey spots are body filler under the glass.

the top of the tank is 3 inches below the top of the stringers. When I glass the tops on the glass will wrap over the tops of the stringers.













Looking down from what is left of the stern deck. It gets cut off pretty soon. You can see the ceterline tanks to the left of the starboard tank.
















View of starboard tank looking aft. you can see a couple of loose stands from the roving that need to be removed tomorrow. One of the disadvantages of using loose mat and roving.













Here is the lat piece of the original glass work I cut off the bad stringer. Tomorrow I will cut pieces out of it to use for the baffles in the starboard tank.

Grinding dust everywhere. I try to keep it cleaned up, but the fine dust goes everywhere.
I will have spend a day cleaning the whole out side of the boat once I have all this grinding done.







So far I have gone through 13 gallons of resin , about 10 yards of 50" width combo mat, 10 yards and about 12 lbs = 36 yrds of biax tape.....