Friday Sept 20th, 2019:
Apologies for the delay. Busy weekends happened.
After I had finished grinding the deck, I laid down overlapping strips of 1.5oz CSM over the entire deck's underside. except for the dash. I left that bare for when I clamped in the new plywood.
Next, using my old dash as a rough template, I cut a new one out of 3/4" marine plywood, and trimmed it down accordingly to fit.
I "primed" the dash with resin and doubled the catalyst (4%), and let that sit. In the meantime, I whipped up a batch of CoreBond, and put in "wedges" in the notches where the windshield frame screws in to.
Back to the dash, I laid on 2 layers of 1.5oz CSM, and clamped her into place.
Was busy all Saturday, so this is what I got done today:
Sunday Sept 22nd, 2019:
I cut out strips of 1/4" exterior mahogany plywood for the sides. I'll be laying on 2 layers of them for a 1/2" combined thickness. This will be replacing the 1/4" (or 3/8") strip of original plywood.
Here they are at their full 8 foot length, but i decided to trim off the forward foot as I plan on adding extended gussets on both sides of the dash.
Soaked them in resin, and clamped into place.
Starboard side...
I didn't take pictures for this really, but I cut a strip of 3/4" marine ply for the splashwell "cross-brace" (as I call it...), and clamped that in.
Added in 2 wedges, CoreBonded and resined into place.
Port side:
After a few hours, I removed most of the clamps, mixed up some more resin, and re-clamped the sections to get the proper "bend" near the splashwell.
Also slathered resin on the outer side of the plywood panels. I plan on glassing these over tomorrow, so I'll still be able to maintain a chemical bond.