Roof and sides covered

The existing roof was fairly good 12mm ply covered with paint-saturated canvas, so we matched this with new ply over the new extending timbers, then finally covered the whole roof with a further layer of 9mm ply, over-lapping any joints, and using copious amounts of pva glue between the layers.
When screwed down, the glue ran through all the joints and screw holes. When we finally went below there were multiple white stalagmites hanging from the underside of the roof where the pva had found it's way through the joints !
The cabin sides followed, again 9mm ply, used so we could bend to follow the curve of the horizontal gunwhale, and twisting it to follow the vertical curving.
The old existing windows were cut in and temporarily sealed, finally all joints filled with epoxy and all given two coats of acrylic white primer. The whole superstructure will be glass-fibered over at a later date.
The wheelhouse width will be the same as the old one, so steps had to be built to get from the side deck up on to the roof, then finally it was on to the wheelhouse re-build.

View towards the new steps. Note the brown pitch pine capping to the gunwhales, bottom middle.

This had to be chiselled off, 2 full days ! Also note the timber outlining the wheelhouse, this was acquired !!!    More about that in the next post.