Deck renovation
Happened so far
During 2003 I decided to swap Johanna’s deck to a new one. Project had two phases: removal of the old and building of the new. Sounds easy……..Early 2004 was almost the whole old deck removed.
During spring of 2004 I changed five deck beams and one bulkhead. Late spring I started to lay the tong-and-groove planking which was finished in late summer. The deck was first designed to be teak-on plywood. I changed this design to a three layer deck which had tongue-and-groove planking, plywood on top of that and finally the teak. I wanted to see the nice planking when I looked up when I wake up in the boat in the morning and not any painted plywood.
After the planking it was time to smooth the plank surface for the plywood with lots of putty. When plywood was glued to deck it was already autumn. Spring of 2005 was started by fitting the kingplanks. Kingplank and the other planks were sawn from approx 50 cm – 60 cm wide Iroko planks. It took the whole summer to install all the bits (kingplank etc) to the deck and in the autumn I epoxied the plywood which should have the teak ribs installed in the coming summer.
Things move forward
Came the year 2006. The deck had new kingplank and was waiting for all that teak. The small deck window holes had also vanished and there was on big one which should have a skylight on top of it later.
The 360 m of teak was waiting. It was ment that the teak rib was installed on place and glued to the deck with Sikaflex 298. Problem was that the turn was quite sharp. So I glued the ribs to each other and they remain in their correct shape. Not a bad idea. And that was how it was done. The width of the “modules” were 7 ribs in the forward part of the deck and 10 in the middle. These modules I glued to the deck with 298 and screwed them with bronze screws. It took 12 litres of 298 and approx 1000 screws.
What next?
Next seams needed the 290DC and it took approx 46 tubes of 290DC.
Bulwark being glued
When ready? who knows but one thing is for sure: the boat will be ready in the summer at five o’clock, if it rains approx half past five.
