Still working the stringers. Poured the port side stringer Friday and ran out of foam so I had to make an hour plus drive to go pick up more before I could continue. Picked up more poly resin so it wasn't a total waste of time. The port side stringer was VERY dry, and probably didn't need new foam but I'm not going to chance anything. Once the foam was set I sanded/shaped the foam to give the edges a radius so the 1708 could form to it. I cut in the 45* channels for the pipe chase as well. A wire wheel with a 3"+ diameter makes good inside corners for the pipe chase channel. Tracker used a heavy weave glass so sanding with a pad sander/DA only hit the high spots on the weave. Using sandpaper by hand allowed for the entire surface to be roughed up, which ate up a lot of time.
The 3/4" ply thats going to lay on top has been cut to size, has the top edge rounded and is hotcoated already. I'm going to mix up some cabosil and resin and bed the ply to the stringer top this week. Bulkheads and glassing in a 3" pvc pipe cut in half are also on the agenda.
stringer cap cut/pulled off
Glass cut to fit/corners cut to fold properly
Glassed.
01-24-2012, 08:54 AM
Progress as of 1/23/11
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