Transom continued
Putting in the transom core was almost a disaster. It was one of those Louisiana summer days where it is 107 in the shade with no wind and 100 percent humidity. One of the batches of epoxy started smoking and melting the pot before 2 minutes of mixing was up. That was with slow hardener and we were not even making large batches. It was taking us 6 or 7 batches just to wet out 1 piece of 1708. We were also wearing Tyvek suits so we were dying in the heat. I was sick for a couple days afterward and did not work on the boat again for half a year, but the core was at least in. I went over the edges with epoxy thickened with cabosil and a little chopped glass strand (I think it is a little stronger that way) which I hit with the die grinder after it had hardened so I would have nice radiused edges that my cloth for the inner skin could conform to easily.
Note that there were a zillion other clamps which were not shown in the pic.
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