With the hull complete it was time to deal with the deck.
Ginger, being an old wooden boat, had a traditional wooden deck that was
covered with heavy duck canvas, glued down and painted many times to make it
waterproof. This deck had many patches and leaks in it and needed to be
replaced. To do this all of the trim boards had to be removed and the old
canvas pulled up. The deck and cabin top cleaned, prepped and new canvas cut to
shape. Then a gallon of glue was rolled onto the surfaces and the new canvas
was squeegee down into the glue. Afterwards, I stapled the edges of the canvas
into place, trimed it back and installed new trim boards. With the application
of 4 coats of paint, Ginger had clean new decks and a waterproof top! A lot of
work just to keep the rain out.
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| Removing the old trim and... |
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| Hundreds of staples, yuck |
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| Pealing the old cabin top off. |
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| this was the forward deck canvas |
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| rolling on glue just like it was paint |
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| stretching the canvas and... |
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| forcing the glue up into the weave of the canvas. |
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| hundreds of staples going back in |
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| Ready for the final trim |
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| Before that I had to tap in every staple to make them flush. |
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| The final product. Looks great. |
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