Glass

Haven't I done this already?  The weather had been quite cool for the first part of November and I was getting quite worried about getting the second hull glassed before "winter".  The last few days have been rather warm and it looks good for the next week and the other side! In talking with another builder about cool weather glass work, he said "I preglassed my panels"  Sure (I said), I glassed the INSIDE of my panels, but what about all those screw holes (on the outside)?  I happened to know he used screws on 4" centres.  He said "no problem" I just glassed over the butt joints and filled the screw holes with filler.  Yikes!!!  I have done this and seen it done when removing teak decks on fiberglass boats and you always end up with the screw heads showing and eventually bleeding thru as the materials expand and contract.  You HAVE!!! to glass over all screw holes to tie it all together.

Keystone

I dry fitted the FINAL hull piece today.  Richard promises that the second hull goes faster than the first one.  In my case; I think this one has gone a bit slower, but there has been a lot going on lately.  Still looking to be on track with my original guestimate time frame of finishing this hull by around Thanksgiving.

A Few Details

On the first hull I laid out the stringers to lie under the forward forward bunk edges.  This worked OK, but not great.  I decided to glass in this ledge to hold the bunk top as this will also be the owners cabin bunk and supporting 2 people.  One pic shows a finished, but not trimmed down flange.  The other pic shows the piece of MDO plywood cover in packing tape I used as the "mold"  I may make the keels from solid fiberglass so experimenting with this type of thing some more is helpful.