Diesel Tank

Well, I know it looks like just a deck with the center missing but it's more than that.  The shiny spot near the top is on the lid for the sanitary tank I finished a couple days ago.  Also, installed the forward two floor supports.  If any Spencer owners follow my blog you know that Spencer liked to put in bilge tanks.  They used the sides and bottom for the tank and just added ends and a top.  This ment if you got any water in the bilge, like .... da .... it's a boat .... , you would have to pump both fore and aft of the tank.  When I installed the sanitary tank I have it a double bottom so the bilge could drain aft.  Today, I cut the top of the diesel tank and spent the day with my head in the tank cutting out the bottom 3" of the fore and aft ends.  Tomorrow I'll glass in a double bottom for that tank as well.  Now my can flow from the chain locker drains all the way aft to the engine bilge.  One common bilge, one pump .... will probably two or three .... you know, multiple back up pumps.  .... electric, and 2 Gusher pumps

06/17 -- I finished the tank bottom.  Layed 5 layers of glass: 3 matte, 2 roving.  I've done cleaner lay-ups, but then, I wasn't doing it up side down with my head in the bottom of a tank breathing vapors.  It got a little hot and set up quicker than I expected.  There are a few wrinkes, but who's going to see it anyway?  Now I have to grind the lid I cut out and get it put back in place.