I took a page out of Strick's Book

[warthog5]

I finally decided how I was going to finsih off the bildge. I needed more support for the floor and more support for the transom. I had some 6ft long 2X10's laying around, but I needed to make the mold 4in wide. I ripped up a 2X4 to use as a spacer. Then I made a little piece to seal the end. I ran the beam thru the jointer to even the top surface out and then ran the router down the thing to round over the top edge. Then I sealed it all up with Duct tape, because I'm going to vacuum bag the piece. I then wraped the beam with visqueen and taped the edges of that down. That will act as a release film. I cut 2 pieces of roven woven stich mat 22X50in and another piece 8X50in. I laid it out on the floor on visqueen and wetted the 1st piece out and laid the next big piece on top of that and wet it out. I picked that mess up and positioned it on the mold, then wet the small piece out and positioned it on the top edge of the mold. Layed the Peel Ply on top of all the glass and then a piece of bleader cloth. I stuck the port on the top of the beam and wraped the whole mess with another piece of visqueen and sealed it all down with Duct Tape. Then I cut a slot thru the visqueen in the middle of the port and hooked up the vacuum. these pieces that I make up will extend the existing stringers in height.