Sunday, March 30, 2008

Chines and Pedestals..

This weekend I made some great progress on the boat. On the menu was finishing the chines, or outside joints where the bottom meets the sides. I also elected to get some laminating started and decided to glass one side of both front and aft level floors. Also I was able to glue up both the guide pedestal and the Aft pedestal. Finishing the chines is rather straight forward work. First, I took a hand plane and squared off the sides to the bottom. Next, I used a power plane to make 45 degree chamfers until the edge was rounded to approximately an 1 1/2 " radius. Then I used my sander and some 80 grit to make it a nice smooth rounded edge for the biaxial tape. Next, I mixed up some peanut butter epoxy and filled in any gaps between the side and bottom as well as all the tiny holes I made stitching the hull. I let this dry overnight. Today, I went and sanded all of my chines again and cleaned them to prep for my biaxial fiberglass. I made another wet out station and after doing some minor touch up with some more peanut butter epoxy and getting the right size strips of fiberglass, I wet out each strip and applied it to the chines like I did the interior. After all th joints were taped and wet out, I continued work with the pedestals. I assembled my molds and then predrilled screw holes in the ends of my laminations. Next, I applied epoxy to all inside sides of the 1/8" okoume plywood and paired them together. I then screwed one side to the mold and tightly wrapped them around the mold and secured them on the other side to dry. Lastly, I cut fiberglass cloth for the forward and aft level floors and glassed one side of each. This week I will try and get my chines sanded and finished as well try and finish my pedestals and level floors so that I can install them next week!

(Boat Flipped for bottom work)
(Chines planed square)
(Chines and Transom rounded)
(Chines with peanut butter epoxy applied)
(Chines ready for Biaxial Tape)
(Chines Taped ands drying)
(Wet-out table for tape and pedestals)
(Pedestal Jigs)
(Pedestal Laminations drying)

(Forward and Aft level floors glassed)

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