Started the day with the area looking like this....
Fist step was to vacuum out the 30 years of dirt and rust. Next up was to tear out the tank supports. You can tell where they were attached by the light colored spots where they were taped in. It was easy to remove these due to the fact that they were so lightly attached to the hull. And only in 2 spots per support, you can just see the stripes where the supports were. I guess the builder figured the tanks were so heavy they would hold the supports in?????
Here is one of the pieces of glass work I ripped out. It looks like maybe 2 layers of 1.5 Oz. Mat.
They did not adhere to the teak? framing members at all and came of the hull very easily.
Fiberglass will not adhere to teak due to the oil in the wood...
I had reinforced the tank attachment at the aft end of the tank before the starboard tank decided to leak. You can see where I ripped the their glass work off. Notice that it stops where I added the new glass work. Had to cut that part them grind it down...again.
This is what 2 hours of grinding will get you.
Notice the dark spots. The final glass work was very uneven, the dark spots are the low spots which I will rough up and fill to get a more even surface for the inside of the tank.
It just keeps getting better and better...at least I do not have to crawl around in a cramped space to work on this one.
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