A busy week finishing the Camper repairs and a milestone with the Morgan Giles 30 refit

The Kon Tiki camper van repairs now finished and looking like a new camper van, 

Just needs a good cleaning to let the new colour blend in to the rest of the camper van colour 

One of the last major jobs on getting the superstructure of the Morgan Giles watertight 

When these windows came out they were in a very poor condition, the owner dismantled the windows and resealed the glass in the frames and then returned them to fit them and now they are ready to have whatever weather and sea this yacht is going to see in the future

The repairs to the Camper van now finished ready for the owner

The major cracks sorted out by grinding out the broken bits of the gelcoat and CSM 

 Temporarily fixing the side panel in position 

Starting to glass up the crack along the lower section to re-connect with the back panel of the camper van 

Hi Build primer the whole of the lower section of the repair 

Then alongthe side panel 

Top coat the whole of the repair to match into the rest of the body work of the camper van 

Camper Van repairs, re-glassing the back panel back on the corner

Cleaning up the inside part of the crack in the Fibreglass ready to reinforce it once the bottom part of the corner is glassed back into position 

Clean up the break in the fibreglass to be able to bond the two halves back together as one piece again 

Now that the bottom section is in position it is time to glass it back together

The first part glassed together and just need it to cure off overnight before working around the corner 

Then it will be possible to sort out the small hole in the bottom section  

Sliding hatch rails and hatch working well

A short video of the hatch sliding along its new rails 

The sliding hatch rails now dry fitted  to ensure the hatch rails are in the correct position so that the rails can now be bolted down

The hatch now closed 

Then opened to ensure it is running well along the slots in the rails 

The hatch is now running level along the rails 

Gluing up the wedges on to the sliding hatch rails and starting to fit the rails on the cabin roof

Gluing up the wedges needed to let the sliding hatch slide along the lower hatch rails level

Once the glue is cured then the excess glue is cleaned off and the slots cut into the inside faces of the rails 

Starting to fit the rails in the correct position to ensure the hatch slides along the rails once they are fixed down into position 

the inside faces which have thew slots cut into them have to be adjusted to make the hatch slide along the slots once the rails are fixed down