14'6 johnsen project! (any help is needed!)

hello everyone I have a million questions. I know how to fish.... I do not know how to build boats I have a few older guys that said that they would help if I bought it, but now they are always convinently "busy" story of my life. I am using nida-core 3/4 in as structure for decks with polyester resin and "chop" or glass that goes every which direction. its already purchased.

I did a deck the other day and the glass crested over the side as soon as I figure out how to upload pics I will. sorry im new to this and will figure it out soon hopefully.

once again any help is awesome!

 

in further description I first cut a piece of nida-core, honey comb, or plasticore whatever you want to call it down on a sheet of plywood under the assumption that it would stiffen up enough to then be fitting on top of the two open side and be flipped upside down (or glassed side down) to make it easier to glass in but it set up a little quick and now the resin is hardened and pointed in the wrong direction since it was glassed on top and faced down and now I cant set it in because of this. I guess I have to cut the excess off the edges like I had and start over but I do not know if I am aloud to glass back over already existing glass on top of the nida core to make it bond just as well as first layer

 

thank you not using brain on that one

 

thank you for being patient

 

need to know how to fill the crack and it will stay put not crack out like pure resin would. 5200? jb weld? marine tex? any better opinions



15 merc with permatrim installed today. tiller extension by strongarm coming soon.

 

I am saying the glass went the wrong way I should have put a 3/4 piece of wood around the entire sheet like a border because it droops down and I need to flip this piece upside down and the glass has hardened to where its backwards and not pliable to bend back and glass it in and also wont sit flush since the glass isn't pliable, I think I need to cut outer edges off and add like a 9 inch piece to the entire border to make it work nut I didn't know if it would bond well to the existing piece.

 

its going to be the back deck 3ft by 57 inches wide (length of beam) and the glass side shown needs to be facing bottom of boat

 

didn't start over and it came out well jus fixed it





The "crack" was filled with high density filler in the resin and sanded with 80 grit paper today. need to go over it with 120 for finish.



came out good with no air bubbles!! this wasn't the final product I cut the little excess off and will be adding 8 inch wide chop mat when I glass it into bulkhead.


2 QUESTIONS!

1.how do I mate two pieces of nida core together that are flat and pushed end to end together to make a deck since i am a little short. do I add high density resin where I moosh them together then just glass them like its a single piece?

2 I need to make a filler piece for transom. I have 3/4 nidacore. I was going to put resin on two sides of the exact same piece like stacking it as an oreo and that would make the same thickness as my transom. I was then going to glass that piece on bot sides of my transom as a filler and also serve as more area to glass to the transom. I am going to leave a hole for air to come out of the transom were to jack plate is. I wasn't going to add this "filler" piece all the way across the transom just a foot off the starboard side and a foot off the port side.


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