More Glass

Time to layer on the cloth again.
I had to buy some more cloth. But should have enough now to finish the boat.

I am getting better at this than when I started for sure. Again finding it is so important to lay out and press the cloth into it's location before applying resin. This time around I am actually enjoying doing the fibreglass because I have learned what not to do.

Another trick this time around can be seen below. I tilted the hull over when doing this side to make applying the resin easier.

Long panel

I have made the long piece which forms the bottom of the inner wing. It is about 6 metres long using scarph joins and kind of looks like a big wooden banana.
Here you can see it upside down to get an idea of the curve involved.

This is actually an earlier photo which shows that I glued the scarph joins with it in place to get the curve just right and used some plastic film to stop it sticking to the hull so I could later remove it to fair the edge where it meets the hull.

And here is the final result. The board has been glued in place. Then the big fillet join added.
Also all the screw holes have been filled and the hull routed and faired, ready for fibreglass.

As you can see the port hull caught a hail of wood chips from the fairing of the hull. Looking forward to getting this hull up the right way to see them side by side.

Inner panels

I have the inner panels on now.

You can see in these photos that the panels are oversize, it is a quick job to sort this out later. You can also see a bit of the glue squished out. I like to see this as it means I used enough!

One thing which you can see in the next photo is that my garage is getting very messy. Time for a clean up maybe.

The build is going slow and steady. Each panel was done in a separate session, each one probably took about 3 hours to measure, cut and glue. My time is still very limited but I feel this build method works well for me because I can divide the building jobs up into very short time periods. Sometimes I only get a 1/2 hour work session but I can still do something useful in that time like cut out a panel or make some measurements.