Finished laminating starboard float

Categories: Floats
I feel accomplished today. The starboard float is sitting in the garage drying right now. Will only need to hit it with the sander to clean up the keel at the transom and two areas of the bow, and then will be ready to fair. Started out by flipping the float to the other side and sanding all along the keel where we left it long. Had to make certain to get all the dry areas off.

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Starboard Float – laminating outside skin

Categories: Floats
Started today with cutting the holes for hatches while dad hit the side of the float with the sander from the deck lamination. Needed to get these all cleaned up to prepare to laminate the side of the float. He got off light – the sander has a vacuum attachment that sucks most of the crap up. The jig-saw I used to cut the holes… well, let’s just say that sweating while cutting fiberglass does not mix… My forearms have a nice shade of red prickles from resting them in fiberglass dust while cutting… oops.

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Starboard float starts getting a skin

Categories: Floats
Did not take any pictures yesterday – suffice to say that it consisted of putting some bog over the last areas on the float sides that we missed… While waiting for the bog to dry, we killed time by driving to a few different marine stores in town to look at motors. I know it’s about a year early, but ya gotta do what ya gotta do 🙂 Came back and spent a good hour or two doing the last of the sanding for this stage.

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