Greetings all the way from South Africa

[zaidhabib]

Been browsing the forums for a while, and thought it's time I make my first post [emoji2]

So I recently purchased a 4.6m rib. No motor or console etc.

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First thing done, was grinded and repainted the deck.

Original deck:



Transom and deck prepped:





Coat of flowcoat on the deck, sprinkled heavily with very fine sand:

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Excess sand vacuumed:



Final layer of flowcoat on the deck and transom

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Next stop, building the consol

Never worked with fibreglass before, so after many tutorial vids, decided to make a one off mould using dry wall material (aka rhino board in this part of the world)







The joins were filled and smoothened:





Applied polish to and buffed the mould (dry wall material) about 5 times hoping that the fibreglass​ would not adhere after curing.

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Then applied resin and 5 layers of 450 chop strand matting



Sanded that down once it cured and removed the mould. Didnt slide off. Had to break off pieces but that came off with not much effort





Hatches​ and helm inspection holes cut, excess glass trimmed and console sanded down. Was impatient to see what it would look like on the boat:





That's where I'm at currently. Will post new images when I make more progress

[Maximus]

Good Luck with the new Progect,go to commend all your work so far!
...and welcome to Ribnet!
Post some pics when you get Her on the water

[zaidhabib]

Thank you 😉

Still a while to get her onto the water. But will definitely send more pics as I progress along