Building a swim platform

I added pics again. I faired all the screw holes and dings, laid a coat of resin over the whole platform, and then I laid two layers of cloth around my grates, storage hatch, and the hatch that hides the swim ladder. Today I added a layer of heavy mat across the whole top of the platform. Tomorrow I'll do the mat around the edge of the platform, and then fair the edges. Originally I'd planned on making the drain channel around the hatch out of wood/glass, but afer laying a coat of cloth/resin on it, I wasn't satisfied with how it looked, and I thought it would be too much effort to make it right, so I cut it out and I'll be making the channel out of aluminum.

https://picasaweb.google.com/115874118884999438016/SwimPlatform
 
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WOW... you are really coming along it looks great... what is the large cut out in the center? Very impressive work so far...:thumbsup:
 
The cutout in the center will be an anchor locker. I'm going to glass all the top before I put the bottom in the locker and glass it. I'm still debating whether or not to just have to open it manually, or put a gas spring on it.
 
Updated pics again. It took 4x as long to do the edge around the platform than it did to do the top. Gravity wasn't working in my favor to help the resin soak in. All that's left to do on the top is to lay a coat of the waxed resin on so it fully cures and fair it out. I won't fair it until after the bottom is done. It's coming along pretty well now.

https://picasaweb.google.com/115874118884999438016/SwimPlatform
 
Yeah, you and me both. I have other projects to move onto when this is finished, and I'm going to lose 4 weekends in the next two months! I should easily be done with the glass work by the end of this coming weekend, and I really don't know how long it's going to take me to do all the finish work.
 
You are absolutely out of your mind!
 
390x said:
Yeah, you and me both. I have other projects to move onto when this is finished, and I'm going to lose 4 weekends in the next two months! I should easily be done with the glass work by the end of this coming weekend, and I really don't know how long it's going to take me to do all the finish work.
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HUMPH said:
You are absolutely out of your mind!
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Another week of days? How many days do you expect total for the project? Good luck with it. MM
 
When I say glass work, I mean laying down mat and resin. That goes pretty fast. Now, finish work like fairing, sanding/smoothing, and priming/painting/non-skid, that is separate, and I have no idea how long that is going to take me. I've probably got 8 or 9 full days in it now, but this is working 100% alone, and that's counting the time I took to make measurements, and a template for the transom of the boat, and picking up lumber.

I'm not out of my mind yet.
 
That looks like a big job, I look forward to seeing the final results. How are you going to do the nonskid?
 
Non-Skid.....that's a good question. I have several samples here of "sand" type non-skid. I'm not really sold on those. If they're really rough, they'll look like crap, and cut you open if you slip. If they're really fine, they'll always be dirty. A friend here re-did the entire deck on his 47' Chris Craft using a really fine texture sand. It looks great when it's clean, which is about 5 minutes a day. He has to constantly be on top of it. If someone tries to wipe something off of it with a towel, lint just covers the deck. I'm really leaning towards tintable spray-on bedliner. We did one a couple years ago with it, and it's holding up great. The only complaint I had about it was it was an aggressive texture that I don't think would look good on the back of my boat. However, if I can adjust the gun and make it a bit finer, that might be the way to go.
 
I'm definitely open to that if I can get it to work. I'm not gelcoating. I'm painting, so I'd probably have to thicken up some resin a little bit, and do it with that, and then paint.
 
390x said:
Non-Skid.....that's a good question. I have several samples here of "sand" type non-skid. I'm not really sold on those. If they're really rough, they'll look like crap, and cut you open if you slip. If they're really fine, they'll always be dirty. A friend here re-did the entire deck on his 47' Chris Craft using a really fine texture sand. It looks great when it's clean, which is about 5 minutes a day. He has to constantly be on top of it. If someone tries to wipe something off of it with a towel, lint just covers the deck. I'm really leaning towards tintable spray-on bedliner. We did one a couple years ago with it, and it's holding up great. The only complaint I had about it was it was an aggressive texture that I don't think would look good on the back of my boat. However, if I can adjust the gun and make it a bit finer, that might be the way to go.
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What about a flexiteek material to cover? MM

http://www.flexiteek.com/
 
390x said:
I'm definitely open to that if I can get it to work. I'm not gelcoating. I'm painting, so I'd probably have to thicken up some resin a little bit, and do it with that, and then paint.
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Paint, hummm. Still think the roller idea will work... What are you going to paint it with? IE the brand make of paint not the apparatus..lol
 
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