It's been a little while. Here is some of what I've been doing.
On the boat there are lots of annoying little holes to fill in the deck cap and transom.
I took my dremel and bored out a bevel around each and everyone of them.
I took my air blower and blew off all dust and then flushed out all the holes with acetone.
For the ones on the deck cap blue tape with a small piece of wet mat was applied to the underside of the bigger ones and tape only under the smaller ones. I then filled the holes with cabosil in a syringe.
For the ones on the transom a piece of blue tape was applied with light pressure over the holes so the cabosil would not run down and make a mess. If you press the tape too hard you will push the cabosil back into the hole and be left with an indention that you will again have to fair over. The cabosil/resin mixture was mixed thin in order to be able to inject it into the deep holes.
In order to reduce the amount of fairing to the inside of the hull I will be making some fiberglass panels. These panels will be glued to areas in between the gunnel cap supports and anchor locker shown here.
I've already done some sanding and fairing in these areas to smooth it out in prep for the panels.
A 4x8 sheet of melamine will be used for a molding table.
I waxed it with partall paste and coated it with duratec primer.
Two lyers of 2 ounce matt were then applied over the duratec while it was still a little tacky.
Action shot
Once cured it was easily broke free from the molding table.
Various templates were made.
Molds for the two panels nearest the bow were made using the outside of the boat as the molding table. The area was taped off and waxed.
Duratec applied
Glass over the duratec.
More to come soon.
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