Building a Tiki 38 Sandwich Deck

These photos might explain why sandwich decks are love/hate inducing items; I have cut plywood to size and epoxied yesterday (two sheets). This morning needed to wash them to make sure there is no amine blush - not likely in this weather (high temperatures and low humidity) but I take no chances and make no exceptions if something was epoxied longer than a couple of hours before.
Measuring and preparing battens and layers of plywood to make all edges. Marking cutout for companionway. Epoxying plywood and battens, sanding skin so it has good mechanical grip for epoxy.
And it is already almost 3 pm.
Technology gives me a little break which is a blessing and a curse. The blessing because I’m tired - the curse because I have a lot of work ahead of me and I want to close this panel today so I can fit it in and laminate in place first thing tomorrow morning before it gets hot and pot life of my epoxy will be counted in minutes.
(Fortunately I live in a hot climate normally so the weather is just perfect for me- but epoxy in the weather should have very slow hardeners - 207, so called “tropical” not only 206)

Tomorrow we will see if I managed to get there today 😜

(On the photographs you can see all the elements which come into a sandwich cabin roof of a Tiki 38 - remember of foam and second plywood skin inside…)

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