Have had the past few days away from the project to ponder how this half will happen. Originally I wanted to infuse as much as possible. The first half we ended up doing a hand-layup on – partially because I didn’t give thought to how to get an airtight seal at the deck area, and then by the time I might have thought of a way, it was just there and ready for laminate, begging to do it that night… so I did.
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Had a lot of positive feelings from yesterday. It’s nice to look up at the ceiling and see the first of four float halves completed. We started on the second float half today.
Dad spent most of the afternoon cleaning and starting to plank the second half
466 While I infused the middle bulkhead and the forward beam bulkhead
473 Put a pretty good dent in things and left it here for this evening
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Today was an unexpected milestone (I actually was planning on this happening next week, so to have everything in place and dry enough for today was a treat).
Before we could tape in the remaining bulkheads, the transom had to be realigned. Apparently when planking down the foam, a two strips were not fully contacting the batten closest to the keel and the bulkhead was way off. Cut away some of the glass where it gets removed anyway and screwed into the battens.
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