The Solo has been glued back together again. I used 5mm elite ply, primarily for cost reasons but its also really light. I managed to get the original deck off in mostly whole pieces so I used it as a template for the new one. The new ply was bonded on with thickened epoxy and weighted down with sand bags, with spring clamps on the outside edges. Once cured it was planed back to the sheer line and the new rubbing strake offered up. As I was replacing like for like, the rubbing strakes are laminations as before. The class rules say minimum width of 30mm over most of the boat so that was three 10mm laminations. Where allowed, I reduced this to two. Where the sailor will be hanging over the edge I added an extra one.
On the GRP hulled boats like this one you are allowed to add a wooden bead along the inside edge of the deck. That's next once the rubbing strakes are shaped up a bit more. As you can see space is extremely tight and verging on the ridiculous!
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