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Old 02-07-2016, 06:39 PM
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Nice work! How's the itch? You haven't been taking advantage of el nino and glassing in January, have you? Also, how did you like the styrene monomer?
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Old 02-09-2016, 08:50 PM
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Nah. I haven't glassed since the fall. I took down the "boathouse" and put the hull in storage. The styrene worked great. Really helped saturate the ply but this resin is so thin it does a decent job by itself. Looking forward to good weather to get back at it. Because of where I put the hole for the fuel tank stuff I've pretty much locked myself in to building my own console. If what I have in my head turns into fiberglass it should be a sweet console.
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Old 07-11-2016, 10:55 PM
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I think I win the award for slowest build but there is progress! I made a new fish box and I have to say it came out aces. Made a male mold. Sprayed with gelcoat and glassed the heck out of it. Also added some divinycell coring in certain areas. I believe it to be much larger than the original although I cannot say since I never had it. It will not drain overboard and will have a drain to the bilge. It will basically be for dry storage when traveling to the island house. Groceries etc. On to the pics. I'm very happy with it. The dark stuff is some of the mold that came with it. I suspect it will come off with some effort (I pva'd the crap out of it) but even if it doesn't, it wont be seen anyway. For size reference, the inside width at the widest point is 48".
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Old 07-11-2016, 11:08 PM
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Some shots of the mold. On top of the table saw you really get a feel for how big it is.
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Old 07-14-2016, 10:44 AM
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Nice work on the mold. The new fish box looks great.
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Old 06-14-2017, 03:02 PM
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Still making progress. This year I got an enormous tent garage to work in so hopefully I can get more done. I ran air and power to it too. Its almost like a real workshop. Its long enough for the 20 with a motor and trailer with some room to spare. It's wide enough to put the 20 with the cap next to it and still have room to work.

I do need to get more pics but here is one of the mold I'm making for the front raised deck. I had a friend CNC me some hatch/gutter molds in 1-1/8" mdf. The pic shows me sealing up the edges before using clay on the corners and then spraying it with pva. I think I may vacuum bag this. I have all the stuff so I cant see why not. Seems like a good part to experiment on and I think it would help a lot in the gutters.

I thought about putting speakers on the rear facing part of this mold, in which case I would glass in some recesses but I think I've decided not to. My reasoning was that if I take on some water then it is an easy way for it to get into the bilge at a very low deck height. Just bust right through the speaker. Perhaps its overkill but the way I'm planning this is that I'd have to have 6" of water on the deck before it could get to bilge. Is that stupid? I figured it would take one heck of a swamping before I had to start pumping water. Or a heck of a rainstorm with clogged scuppers. I am planning some aggressive scuppers I think too.
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Old 06-29-2017, 10:19 PM
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Well. Turns out I'm not as good at vacuum bagging as I thought. I think the 90 bend is what screwed me. Couldn't stop the leaks and I lost it. It just kept pulling up at the corners. Kicked before it could pull enough vac. Not sure it ever would have. Lesson learned. When it comes to vac bag, keep it simple. Looks like I have some mold clean up to do,followed by a few hours with a brush and some rollers glassing this by hand.
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Old 07-10-2017, 02:51 PM
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This was much better. It didn't even take that long. I'm certain it's a bit rich on the resin, but it came out well and is pretty light. I used 1 layer of matt, 2 layers of 1708, 3/4" H80 Divinycell and then 2 layers of 1708. I used vinyl ester resin. There is still some cleanup to do as far as the molding clay and some PVA but I'm very pleased with the outcome. Now I just have to trim it to size and glass it in.

Do you guys think there is still enough flex in the hull that I need to put the cap back on before I glass this in? The whole floor right up to the step is already completely glassed in and I did that with the cap on. I cant imagine there is much ability to flex with the floor in place but I certainly dont want any distortion. I am dying to get this piece glassed in though.
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Old 07-10-2017, 10:24 PM
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Very nice work��
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Old 07-11-2017, 08:25 AM
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Thank you for the compliment. I do have more than a few little surface air bubbles to deal with. I probably could have done a better job of cleaning the mold after the failed vac bag attempt. I'm thinking I might take the sand blaster to this to handle those. Got it all trimmed and set in place. It is starting to look like a boat again!
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