While our boat is coming down the Assembly line and all of the internal furniture, electrical and plumbing systems are being installed the fiberglass department is still hard at it, building the deck.
Decks are built upside down due to their shape and the need for gravity to help us keep materials in place while the fiberglass sets up. Sabre decks have a built in anti slip pattern in them and many owners choose to have the anti slip as a contrasting gelcoat color. In order to put the 2nd color on we have to first tape out all of the smooth areas of the deck so that the anti slip surfaces are the only ones exposed. The orange areas seen in this image are the areas we spray first. Once that has been gelcoated, Mike and his Fiberglass Department team will remove the plastic covering the smooth areas and spray the deck’s base gelcoat color on the newly exposed areas. The result is a two tone deck.
More on the actual building of the deck next week.