Coamings and lids

I've been away but I've been busy in the shop. Here some more shots of molding hatch lid coamings. More dirtbag cheap molds from melamine and 2x4 covered in packing tape

Small hatch skin the mold under vacuum

Small hatch mold

Small hatch skin

Parts are literally stacking up everywhere

Skins and cores cut. Extra foam trimmed foam coamings and gutters.

If u put all the parts in place it looks like a dory

Coaming mold for small hatches. Notice the 3/8" fillet in the front trim that defines the roundover at the front of the hatch opening. Gives a nice thing for your fingertips to catch to pull the hatch open.

Epic sunset in the snake river canyon after a great lunch counter surf session

Garden is growing

Lid hatch

Been molding hatch lids. It's been a learning experience. Sofar almost all of them have had defects, air bubbles, prereleases, etc. I'm learning the best way to get the glass to behave and how to use my thickened coat for better  coy tours in the hard corners. I also realized I need to stick with slow hardener even tho I am impatient. Ill use fast to core them, then we'll see about the top layup. I may try and find some helpers and use fast hardener, but I'm u decided. Sofar had much better results with slow. Here's some random pics. All three big hatch skins are done. One has a 3/4 tall trim to make up for the 1/4" I cut out by coring this hatch with foam instead of plascore. This will hopefully give me the little bit of extra height I need to fit in my engel cooler. We'll pray it all works out. Here's a few more pics. 

Mold with 3/4" melamine inner mold for rowers drybox hatch lid

Modeling clay fillets

Better look at the trim and corners

Last big skin in the bag

Epic Teton sunset at the boatshop