This is not for an Evelyn, but I thought I'd throw it out to the group and see what the collective wisdom is. Oddly enough, it's for a Johnstone design that has frighteningly similar targets (polars) to an Evelyn 32-2. I'll let you all guess the model.
A good friend whom I occassionally crew for wants to replace his cabin sole. The piece is about 42 x 21 inches. Turns out he found a chunk of teak and holly veneer and that, coupled with some 6mm meranti BS 1088 ply, scrap from my i550 build, is the perfect thickness to match the rest of his interior floorboard.
We were brainstorming on the best way to build the laminate. I started off thinking some epoxy mixed with silica to a thickness that would allow him to squeegee the stuff evenly across the two surfaces, then slap together and put some weight on it, no big deal. Then we got to thinking about the load cycles the laminate would see over the course of a few seasons, and got to wondering if a similar kind of application with something like 4200 or 5200 might be more appropriate, simply due to the fact that it will have a bit more "flex" in terms of the kind of way the floorboards will load up every time they get stepped on our a heavy cooler gets dropped on it, etc. We got to thinking the epoxy might be too brittle for this particular application.
anyway, if anyone has any thoughts, please chime in and thanks a million for your input.
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