View aft, sorry for the mess, these two show the completed deck, a mix of old and new with a hatch to allow access to the steering. The original decking is spruce that is full of knots so filling in the missing planks was easy, simply dug through my scraps of 2 bys and ripped and planed as needed. Reminder, if you click on these pics, they enlarge.
This, on, below, is of the completed motor well consisting of a short length of 1 1/2 inch PVC pipe, two threaded adapters, two thought hulls, and a pair of shims cut from PVC trim.
The through hulls threaded nicely into the PVC adapters ( a piece of luck) and the bottom one is set in 3M 5200, between all of the layers inside and out. I am wondering if I should have added grease fittings at top and bottom, but don't think I will need them.
The upper part of the well is held in place by a 2 by 3 block that has a half round cutout to receive the PVC and held there by a clamp that I found in a box of misc. hardware in the dump. The bolts are 1/4 inch stainless salvaged from my old sailboat. All bedded in thickened epoxy. Did I need the uprights? I don't know but somehow they tied the whole thing together and I had just enough epoxy left so I did it.
Here is a view of the back deck showing the hatch Should give good access and maybe allow for a bit of storage as long as I am careful not to overdo it.
I really like the look of that deck, it just makes the lines of the boat more apparent as opposed to the gapping hole I began with.
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