Custom 25 CC - Shine

[shine]

more prepping for the wide cloth along the bottom. *Will be running two 30" wide lengths that overlap one another in the space between strakes (under where stringer will be), also overlap up the chine. *Second strip overlaps the keel.

The strakes have been trimmed where they extended all the way through the hull, so glass will go over them.

Pictures below are of the first strip area before glass. *Wetting out wood, filling gaps, making a fillet along bottom of strake.







my helper

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I guess I forgot to post the pictures here of the bottom glassing.....Slow but steady progress. *The last of the hull bottom glass is in. *Hull bottom glass is 2 x DB1700, with some places having 4 layers (overlaps)

Next is the transom. *Before glassing the transom I need to get started on the sides (transom glass needs to overlap the sides). *Picture shows dry fitting the first layer of inside glass layer. *I will be laminating the sides of the hull in transverse strips of biaxial cloth. *Wetting out a single long piece of glass on the inside is asking for trouble when working by yourself in this heat. *Laying the glass this way means a little waste (with the overlaps), but thats not so important as having a good quality lamination.

[shine]

tabbed in the transom. DB1708 tabbing 18" wide strips. Next up is the inside transom skin, going to recruit a helper for that big job..

[Spidercrab]

mr shine
my cuz jessie use fan motar fer his jonny bote
top speed bout 20 mph
dat big bote of yours mite need 2 blower fans

i like what u are doin

sam

[DonV]

Dang Spidey, your cuz Jessie actually had a safety shroud around the fan blade, I'm impressed. Ya just gotta love a redneck john air bote!!!