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Yes...This is an addendum to my previous topic (worst repair).
I do have an example. Recently, I have been doing odds and ends on my Wellcraft to get finish getting her seaworthy.
Sunday (That's what I get for skipping church), I was going to reinstall the center deck piece that goes over belly tank. That particular piece is approximately 6' long by 2 1/2' wide. The wood had rotted under the glass so I removed all that rot and glassed in a fresh piece of 3/4" marine 7 ply. So, as you can imagine it had some weight to it. This deck piece also has a hatch (2'x2') that is 1/2" thick solid fiberglass...pretty heavy itself for a hatch.
I had the hatch open while hefting the deck piece up over the gunnel so I'd have a place to grab it. I had my hands up over the edge the of deck piece and fingers wrapped around hatch cutout. Once I had the deck over the side of the boat and before I started tilting the deck inside the boat I slid my hands back so my fingers were clear should the hatch go past vertical and shut. Well, the deck was tilted in and so I lifted it the rest of the way up and that hatch SLAMMED shut and it turns out that my left ring finger was MOST of the way out.
4 hours later I came home from the ER with the last 3/4" of my finger reattached with ten stitches. I've got 48 hour quarters and a bottle of Motrin so it could be worse. Plus my wife is waiting on me like I'm at a 5 star resort
Any of you have unfortunate mishaps while working on your beloved boat? Sorry for the long post...it took me along time to type it.
I do have an example. Recently, I have been doing odds and ends on my Wellcraft to get finish getting her seaworthy.
Sunday (That's what I get for skipping church), I was going to reinstall the center deck piece that goes over belly tank. That particular piece is approximately 6' long by 2 1/2' wide. The wood had rotted under the glass so I removed all that rot and glassed in a fresh piece of 3/4" marine 7 ply. So, as you can imagine it had some weight to it. This deck piece also has a hatch (2'x2') that is 1/2" thick solid fiberglass...pretty heavy itself for a hatch.
I had the hatch open while hefting the deck piece up over the gunnel so I'd have a place to grab it. I had my hands up over the edge the of deck piece and fingers wrapped around hatch cutout. Once I had the deck over the side of the boat and before I started tilting the deck inside the boat I slid my hands back so my fingers were clear should the hatch go past vertical and shut. Well, the deck was tilted in and so I lifted it the rest of the way up and that hatch SLAMMED shut and it turns out that my left ring finger was MOST of the way out.
4 hours later I came home from the ER with the last 3/4" of my finger reattached with ten stitches. I've got 48 hour quarters and a bottle of Motrin so it could be worse. Plus my wife is waiting on me like I'm at a 5 star resort
Any of you have unfortunate mishaps while working on your beloved boat? Sorry for the long post...it took me along time to type it.