S/V Po Oino Roa: NEW CONSTRUCTION

Thursday, September 12, 2013

NEW CONSTRUCTION

Pinoy Boat Yard
Port Carmen, Cebu
Philippines

Here we go two new posts in one day. Hey you need a break from sanding and it's raining lightly.

We had two main projects in mind to complete here in the boat yard. The first was the cabinet in our aft cabin for increased storage. That has been finished and the vacant interior now filled with Kathy's sewing supplies. It turned out the way we had hoped and we're quite pleased with it's look. The second project was to replace our old and very worn canvas bimini top with a hard fiberglass one. We then will eliminate the existing dodger as the bimini will be equipped with canvas and clear vinyl window material on all four sides that will roll up or down depending on the weather. In addition there will be shades similar to what we now have.

This has finally been started last Monday. The construction will be a honeycomb material covered in fiberglass. In addition there need to be some wood stringers as backing for screws, channels for wiring of interior lights, along with the window to view the sail, grab rail handles on top to serve as hand holds and double as rain catchers. As you can see this is not just a simple new top. For the first two days we had the top two carpenters working for us as we first discussed what we wanted and what the end result should look like. They used the existing bimini as a rough pattern to build a mold to lay down the honeycomb material. WE next had what appeared to be a giant curved rectangle of epoxied together panels. This morning I removed our fore and aft shades and the new top was put in place for it's first fitting. This was to draw the basic outline adding curves and shape to all the sides. We could finally get and idea of what it would look like. This afternoon the top is back up in the shop where two layers of heavy fiberglass roving have been added, tomorrow a single layer goes on the bottom. Meanwhile number two carpenter Lando is working on what will become the grab rail handles and Sandy, a fiberglass /sander is filling and fairing. Number one carpenter Alejandro is working on things for another boat and supervising. I make visits every 45 minutes or so to see how things are going and take photos. When questions arise we have Kathy come up to see and she is the one with the final say so.

Now with luck photos will also load and I hope to keep the updates coming as work progresses.

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