Wednesday, March 2nd, I took some available time to continue the hatch construction. It was again time for some epoxy work - gluing in slats and assembling the hatch frame rails. The picture below is a dry run of the hatch assembly pulled together with a strap clamp. The strap clamp provided great pressure around the hatch frame, pulling it tightly in on itself.
The hatch slats were spaced out using 1" wide pieces of teak - cut from the same hatch slat material; the slats were secured with small brads, but are also glued in with 'neat' epoxy.
The hatch frame rails were glued up in the same fashion as when they were originally brought together with the splines: application of 'neat' epoxy and then a subsequent application of epoxy thickened with 403 Microfibers. Once the frame was epoxied and secured with two strap clamps, I wiped up the excess epoxy and we flipped her over: as I painted out the spacers and slats with 'neat' epoxy, Glenn secured the slats as the epoxy kicked with a brad nail in each.
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