Count your blessings southern seacrafters

[CHANCE1234]

This is how I have to fiberglass in the winter up here in the northeast. Probably not the safest thing but I'd rather fish in the summer than work on a boat. The a frame is my daughters swing set, minus the swings. A propane heater and drop light and presto, make shift fiberglass shop in December in the northeast. I know the pics suck but here's what I'm dealing with...

[Blackfin26]

Necessity is the mother of invention...Good hustle!

[ct9amr]

Get er Dun...
"the southern folks can translate for you. :-)

[GoodChance]

That sucks! I remember the mid-Atlantic and NE winters. Plus the heat/humidity of the summer.

75 degrees here virtually all winter minus a few days where it might only get to 60 with a passing cold front. But we do have warm summers.

[Normagain]

We will... I'd probably blow myself up! Be careful with fumes. Particularly, acetone vapors are heavier than air, the vapor tends to settle at ground level. Highly flammable, you know the drill.

[bigeasy1]

Keep up the good work.
I know how you feel,I did the same over two winters in Mass on my 23 project.Tarped in enclousure with propane heaters and two feet of snow on the ground.Did the transom in February.
I actually liked doing the glass work in those conditions as you had a lot of time to work with the mix before it would kick.
Did the work in the cold and once it was where it needed to be,we'd crank up the heat until it cured.
Hey,I have no idea how the southern boys on this site do the beautiful work they do in that heat,my hats off to them.

Here's a couple pics of my resto enclousure.
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[CHANCE1234]

Nice. I'd like something as big as that but we don't have the land to do it down here.

[Mikem8560]

it can be amazing warm in there I used to have a camvas shop in new Hampshire and it I had to put boats in a cover it tent in the winter I had a salamander on a thermo swich to keep the heat down id be in there in the snow in my t shirt, im sure now that im used to florida il be wearing a sweatshirt now

[oldfielder]

One thing I learned about propane heaters last winter redoing an 18 foot Steiger deck and stringers is that they create quite a bit of vapor, so depending on what you are doing just keep an eye on that. Depending on the dew point, temp, etc,once you turn them off you can actually create a situation where you create enough vapor inside your structure that you will get condensate once you shut the heater down.
It was more important when painting than when glassing.

[bigeasy1]

Originally Posted by oldfielder

One thing I learned about propane heaters last winter redoing an 18 foot Steiger deck and stringers is that they create quite a bit of vapor, so depending on what you are doing just keep an eye on that. Depending on the dew point, temp, etc,once you turn them off you can actually create a situation where you create enough vapor inside your structure that you will get condensate once you shut the heater down.
It was more important when painting than when glassing.

Yup,you got that right.
A good friend of mine finished off a 30' South Shore down east boat in Maine in a beautiful structure that he built.He glued up several large bows out of 1x3's (like trusses),installed them on top of a 4' high knee wall,and then had the entire structure shrink wrapped.Even had an aluminum storm door for entrance.It was huge space.
He heated it with an old warm air furnace,with flexible ducting that he could move where ever the heat was needed.

The first time he fired it up, it was thumbs up,then after a while in the cold Maine temps with the heat from the furnace warming the interior,it basically started raining inside,from the large amount of condensation.
He had to make a rain catcher out of more shrink plastic hung about a foot from the top cover which directed the water out of the building.