Another 25 Seafari goes under the knife

[Blue_Heron]

We had family in from out of town for the Easter weekend so I took a break from working on the boat. We paddled a 3 mile stretch of the Santa Fe River yesterday. The weather was beautiful, but I forgot to take my camera along.

I had worked on retooling the mold for the live well tub during the week and found some time to do the lay up after everybody left for the airport this afternoon.

Mold shot with 15+ mills of gelcoat:



Spray gun trashed after too much use with gelcoat:



Lay up complete:



This is my wet out table. I’ve found it’s much easier to wet out the biaxial cloth on a flat surface and then roll it in place, rather than trying to wet it out in place. That doesn’t work so good with chopped strand mat, though. Once it’s wet out, it doesn’t hold together.



And the live well tub once the mold was removed:



I still need to trim it and fit it in place. The shop looks like a disaster area with all the stuff I've done over the past couple weeks. So the next job is to do a thorough clean up and reorganization. After that, I'll be ready to take all these parts I’ve made and core them and assemble them. I’ll post more as I go through that.

Dave