Friday, May 16, 2014

Inside seams

Johnny came over the other night and helped me lay inside seams. I could have sworn i had extra 12 oz biax tape layin around but i couldent find it.  Of course 2 days after doing the layup i found it in the scrap box. I laid the chines with 5 oz kevlar tape on the chines with 17 oz biax on top. Stem got kevlar tape at the bottom, 6 oz glass tape, and the transom just got glass tape. After finding the 12 oz biax tape i cut two pieces to tape over the stem and a tall and short piece for transom corners. That left me about 10 ft of tape per side. I cut 2 ft off to tape the bottom outside corners of the boatmans footwell leaving me  8 ft for the impact area of the chine inside.

Of course in the one day the biax tape was missing i tacked in 2 of the bulkheads to thr boat so laying the extra tape in the impact area last night i had to tape around the two center bulkheads. Looks pretty good tho, ready to tack the other two in the center in and start the gutters. Ill keep the part factory going in the meantime. Last night got another bulkhead laid up as well as the rowers footwell walls and vertical support. Couple more bulkheads to go and the vertical pieces of the boat are all fabricated. Killed it this week on pre making parts. Ill try to get a few helpers this week to keep it moving.

Seams looking real pro after the peelply. Really buried the edges. Whack it quick with fairing to bury further and that's it. No sanding!







Couple bulkheads tacked in place. The parts factory is crushing these babies out. 2/3 of them done now! Woohoo. Layups keep getting smaller and easier to do. Feel like I am making progress this week.



Front drybox bulkhead and vertical rowers footwell parts curing in the bag









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