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With a nice weekend with out rain I decided to get the transom core installed in the hull. I cleaned the back of the hull as well as I could and prepped it for the thickened epoxy. There was a bit of water running from one of the cut off box stringers so I had to stop the water from coming out of it and getting on the core untilled it was set and cured. I took some clear silicon and built a bridge stop behind it to catch any water trying to run out and also dropped the nose of the boat down with the trailer jack. I mixed up some epoxy with cabosil until it was thick enough to spread and not sag. Some what thicker than mayonnaise and used a notched spreader to cover the inside of the hull back. I used to use a masonry trawl but found it to big to work well. The smaller plastic card works much better and also flexes to the shape needed. Once I got the entire back covered I thickened it up a little more and then laid it across the bottom to bed the base in. Me and my son sat the core into the rear of the boat in the bedding and slowly applied pressure pushing all the air out the top. Once in we took my famous Deep Throat Clamps and clamped her down till a little epoxy started to ooze out the top and edges. I got my fillet tool and ran it around the edge of the core after adding a little more thickened resin to the edges and rolled out some nice fillets so that the nest layer will transition smoothly to the hull sides. Once this sets up I will install another 1708 layer on top of the core with 6 inch tabs on the same piece and then add additional tabbing on top of that full layer.

Thickened resin:



Epoxy Resin on hull:




Leaky stringer Damn:




Clamps on Transom:





Fillets pulled around the core:




Hours: 8

Total Hours: 58