Spent about 3 hours today cleaning up the shop, making some rungs for a rope boarding ladder and making a new backing plate for the bilge drain, lower gudgeon, and cockpit scupper.
The original backing plate was rotted out and that's what I spent hours pulling the old floatation foam out of there to access and remove. It looked to be made of 3/4" plywood. I wanted to beef it up a little so the new one is made of 2 layers of 1/2" marine ply glued together and coated with epoxy mixed with cabosil. I also added about 1" to each side and the top of the backing plate to spread the force out over a wider area.
Pics to follow...
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