Glen-L Hot Rod

1. The prop on the left is our old OJ 12x16p LH 3 blade Nibral propeller. It has performed flawlessly, but we wanted to increase our cruise RPM by several hundred RPM, so we had a new OJ propeller reworked to an 11x14p.

2. (Index)

Time to get back to some finishing and get the seats ready for upholstery. The seat tops were trimmed at a 10 degree angle so that the tops are flush with the deck. The simple rotisserie jig made spray painting the parts a lot easier !

We encapsulated with three rounds of West System 207 Special Coating. After block sanding, we sprayed three rounds of Perfection two-part polyurethane varnish.

1. Time to finish up the front deck. We needed to build a wide deck beam to bolt the dash cowl to. We epoxied a 4-1/2" wide strip of 1/4" marine grade plywood to the bottom of the deck battens.

2. We laminated three layers of 1/4" marine ply to conform to the deck beam's curvature.

3. The pop-up bow light mounts in a plastic housing (at left of photo). The fit wasn't too good, the plastic was very flimsy and the bolt holes were way too close to the edge, so we fabricated a wood plug from some scrap wood (middle of photo). We wrapped the plug with Saran Wrap and wetted out three layers of 6 ounce fiberglass cloth with West System epoxy.

1. The pop-up bow light mounts in a plastic housing (at left of photo). The fit wasn't too good, the plastic was very flimsy and the bolt holes were way too close to the edge, so we fabricated a wood plug from some scrap wood (middle of photo). We wrapped the plug with Saran Wrap and wetted out three layers of 6 ounce fiberglass cloth with West System epoxy.

2–3. We moved the front mounting hole inboard away from the flange and created a step to receive the mount bolt.

4. The shroud was epoxied into the strongback.

Fits like a glove !

1. Blocking for the pop-up deck cleats was made from 3/4" marine grade plywood.

2. The cleat pops up when you hit the release button.

3. To restore some of the deck batten thickness we removed while fairing, we laminated a strip of 1/4" marine grade plywood to the underside of several battens.

4. The battens will be encapsulated before applying the plywood deck.