Had a nice vacation in the woods of the Blue Ridge mountains. Got a little zip lining in, a rafting trip and some tubing on the smaller rivers. Took a week after returning to get back to work on the boat.
Anyway here we go.
Last Friday I put the form work together to lay up the flanges to support the top. The underside of the white pieces are high gloss formica so the glass work will not stick to it. the four pieces you see hanging down are to clamp it to the tank sides while I do the glass work. You can see two of the clamps on the left two pieces.
Today I was able to glass all the flanges in. It took about 2 hours of pretty intense work for each of the two tank sections. I always try to glass the four sides in in one session to they bond to together better. As you can see in this photo not all the corners are covered completely. A little grinding and then I will be able to close those little spots up. Tomorrow...hopefully
Then this afternoon I started on the two baffle plates. These are cut from reclaimed fiber glass panels. No sense in throwing away good solid fiberglass only to lay up more.
So I got them rough fitted and ground the back side down to clean solid glass. The other side is gel coat which I will grind the surface of in most and all of it off where I have to glass it in to the boat.
Feels good to be making progress again.
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