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Here's the hull as it sits before I start up with the day's festivities. |
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More fiberglass. I spent the weekend applying layers of epoxy resin to the hull. However, on Sunday, I realized that I'd forgotten to apply an extra layer of fiberglass along the chines in the front and back of the hull. So ... that's what I did. I should have had this small layer of glass against the last layer of glass instead of on top of a few layers of resin, but that's the way it goes. Here's the dry glass cloth before the resin is applied. |
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Another shot of the dry fiberglass cloth waiting to be wet out. |
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Here you can see the new layer of cloth, wet out with epoxy resin. Have I mentioned that fiberglass sucks? You can see some stray strands of glass cloth that frayed out on the ends. Despite my best efforts to keep the edges clean, when I applied the epoxy resin and started to remove excess resin from the cloth, the ends frayed. I attempted to deal with it, but I decided that messing with it would just make it worse. Looks like a lot of sanding for me later on ... |
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A view of the back of the hull. The dull spot is new fiberglass. What's next? I'll get a few layers of resin on this new stuff and over the rest of the hull, and then I'm just going to let it sit. I'll pop the hull off of the forms, because it should be ok to sit around for awhile now. Then I'll put the deck back on the forms and begin to plane and sand that puppy down. |