The forward Bulkhead clamped in place ready to glass. It takes a while to get everything lined up right. I thought I had the foam in line but it turns out that it is very hard to get the foam in so that the bulkhead lands on it completely. I ended up unsticking it in a few places to move it to get it right.
So that is glassed in on the after face of it. I won't bore you with more pictures of the glass work. They have been added to my collection for posterity.
Next came the dividing bulkhead which you see here in place and glassed in on the after side of it.
The aft Bulkhead went in first and it has been glassed to the hull on both faces. I still need to glass the forward faces of the dividing and forward bulkheads. Maybe I will get to it tomorrow after I finish laminating the interior wall up.
I re-assembled the mold for the interior wall of the tank. I replaced the wax paper release idea with waxed high gloss Formica. I am hoping that it will give me a smoother surface. The wax paper seems to wrinkle regardless of how careful you are. We will know tomorrow....
It took several hours to cut all the pieces of fiberglass to laminate it up. The big openings in the middle make it difficult to build without a lot of waste. I ended up cutting pieces to fit in around the openings.
There are 4 layers of 24 oz. Combomat and 1 layer of Coremat for a total finished thickness of 7/16". There are something like 57 separate pieces of glass and Coremat.
It should take 2 to 3 hours to laminate the whole thing up.
Finished to afternoon up by drilling all the holes on the cover plates...all 96 of them. So they are ready for the next step which will be to use them to bore the holes in the wall around the openings.
Then I will thread all the holes in the plates and install the 1/4-20 bolts.
Have sailboat racing both days this weekend and doctors Monday morning. So not much progress on Monday.
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