Things are progressing nicely and I’m starting to figure out the process. I was able to finish the 2nd, smaller hatch in about 3 days (roughly 10 hours of work). I brought the two finished hatches to the boat and installed them and they look really good. The new teak is gonna restore some of Treylya’s former beauty. I removed two more of the hatches and brought them home to work on.
This one was on the starboard side and though it wasn’t damaged there was only about 3 mm of thickness of teak remaining over the crappy presswood veneer so to keep the look consistent I’m redoing this one as well.
Today I was able to scrape both of the hatches to the fiberglass and do the outer border of one of the hatches.
I’ll finish laying the teak tomorrow on that one and do the sanding and chalking when that drys. I should be able to finish and install those two by this weekend and that’ll be the end of the removable hatches and I will only have the two longer seats remaining which are fixed to the boat. I’ll need to wait for some nice weather to finish those.