Two floats….

Categories: Floats Main Hull
are better than one… 2123 2126 This leaves a little extra room in the workshop…. 2116 and after shaving off some of the dried epoxy and fiberglass, we were able to flip the MDF sheets over and have a clean working surface to start tracing out main hull bulkheads 2143 I’m trying some “new” fasteners from the Raptor Nail folks (well, they were a new product when they came out and I bought them… been sitting for a while)

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Even more port float…

Categories: Finishing Floats
It’s taken way too long for us to get to this point. Between schedules and work commitments, just too much time has passed since starting the port float. After Saturday’s burst of motivation, we finished fairing the float enough for primer, and I stayed up late cutting the chain plate and putting HD epoxy in to act as spacers 2101 This left me with some small things to finish up Sunday morning (including LOTS of time with the vacuum) and enough time to shoot two coats of high-build primer before heading back home.

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Port float continues; daggerboard case continues

Categories: Floats Main Hull
Got a good amount of work done today. We started out getting the port float outside face ready to laminate 1921 … and proceeded to laminate it 1925 1928 You’ll notice some buckets of fairing compound under the keel in this shot, it’s keeping the shape of the foam for the port side of the daggerboard case – got this all cut and worked on it while the float was curing

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