Big day today

Today was a day of finishing and unwrapping....

I bonded in the final section of core in the transom. I had trouble with the seal for the vacuum bag again. I guess I am going to have to sand and re-coat with resin the areas where the bagging tape seals on the hull. I went round and round the perimeter tape trying to get it to seal. I did finally manage to get it to seal well enough to get 10 PSI of vacuum which is enough. I imagine that I will have it all figured out by the time I finish with the port side.

After lunch and a brief rest I cut the cloth for the inner skin for the core I just put in on the transom and then glassed the final layers of the inner skin on the starboard side aft. So the hull Extension is done on that side. Seems like it has been forever....

The last job of the day was to remove the mold from the starboard side and transom. That is a real milestone for this project. She looks pretty good. There will be a wood band that covers the joint between the blue and the white above it. You cannot really tell in this picture but the white area above the blue stripe actually leans in at about 8 degrees.

       
        Here is a shot from forward. The angled part at the front is where the stairs from the side deck go up to the sun deck. I use a mat finish Formica for the aft section and a high gloss Formica for the front part which really shines. It does not matter , they will both be painted.

Later on after dinner I went back to it and pulled the vacuum bag off and glued all the foam fillets. Now it is ready for the inner layer of glass.