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Fiberglassed...

April 6, 2012
Started the day out with a couple of other projects that I needed to get done. So after a nice lunch, I started cutting the CSM tape to fiberglass the stringers and bulkheads down to the boat. My plan is to do 2 layers of 1.5oz CSM up on one layup. Then whilst that is curing we will cut the 1708 Biaxual tape and fiberglass that in for the final layer.


April 7, 2012

The stringers and bulkheads are now fiberglassed into the boat. We had 3 people (my wife Nina joined Jack and myself) working on this phase of the project and everything went pretty smooth and quickly. It was nice to have help!

Observations CSM is horrible to work with...the glass strands get all over everyone and everything!! Nina worked on pre-saturating the glass and then handing them to me in the boat. She would spread resin on one layer of glass and then put on another layer and then saturate that one. When she was finished with that she would hand them to me in the boat where I had already spread out some resin over the area to be glassed. Then after we were finished with laying the CSM, we went ahead and moved forward with applying the 1708 layer. I called out the measurements and Nina cut the 1708 with Jack placing them in order so that we would know how they went into the boat. This was not so bad at all. 1708 Biaxual Cloth is much much easier to work with than CSM. Note to self always use 1708 when glassing in stringers!! We moved the boat out into the sunlight (although it started to cloud up) as the temperature was around 70.

A special Thank YOU to my helpers on this project. If I was doing this myself I would not be near as far along on this!!

TO DO LIST:
-Cut the reliefs in the bulkheads for water passage.
-Cut reliefs in the back of each stringer so that water can get to the bilge.
-Cut and attach cleats at the top of the stringers and bulkheads
-Paint Cleats with Redguard.
-Purchase Plywood for the Deck (2 Sheets -- 1/2" MDO)
-Make patterns to use for cutting the deck wood

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