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cabin top and fly bridge

now the pics

faired and painted

webs between rails

lots of clamps no fasteners

Hey Marlin - how 'bout coming over to my camp and doing those on AJ? Free beer, cajun eats, etc????

Stunning work. The Faithful continue to amaze.

UV

That is nice work!

Man, it doesn't get any nicer.

So I got to ask, beautiful work by the way, why did you not use Coosa for the painted rails? Not afraid of the wood grain photographing through in harsh climate? Had to ask!

Looks great Marlin. Glad to see that you've conquered Photobucket and post up the images.

how were the cabin top rails fastened to the boat?

thx for the compliments,capt pat is my coach, with a lot of patience, I initially wanted to use a composite but didn't have the tooling {Knives} available in Florida,, a guy at viking told/showed me some pics of there handrail system and I ordered 2 pieces 8' long from a shop in Ft Licquerdale for 250$, made out of clear spruce, we eased the ends to match the profile , took some measurements, screwed the aft end secure, screwed the mid section and continued to bend the mldg inboard as we went forward and secured it. Traced the outline plus 1/2" , removed the handrails roughted up the cabin top with 36 paper as well as the bottom of the rail, redrilled the holes and countersunk them{these holes also served as registration marks} primed both surfaces with epoxy and glued them together with peanut butter, and put several coats of epoxy onto the exterior and faired in the transition with peanut butter and then had a beer. Sever of the old timers carpenters agreed with the method