Fibreglassing The Hull (at last)
I have at last managed to find enough time to fibreglass the hull. I did it in 2 sections (port and starboard), over 2 seperate days. Before fibreglassing I had to do some fairing to fill some areas and a lot of sanding - not prettty, but I plan to paint the hull which will hopefully hide all the horrors.
For each side, I laid out 2 sections of cloth, one for the hull and another for the side, which overlaps the hull cloth, to make the seam stronger.
Here you can see the overlaps once wetted out with epoxy
With one side done, I set to work on the other side a couple of days later
I measured out quite a few cups of epoxy with 6 “squirts” from the pumps in each before starting. When I needed a new batch, I just added 6 pumps of hardener and mixed it up. On the far table I had all my cleanup equipment and other tools ready to hand in case I needed them. I went through several rollers (nearly ran out), lots of cups and mixing sticks and lots of rubber gloves (they get covered in epoxy and make picking up tools very messy)
Ready to start the second side
Action man…
Cloth wetted out
Another coat
Nearly done
May 29th, 2010 Edit