Spent the weekend cleaning up the inside of the floats and making the first float deck (wanted to do both at the same time, but just didn’t have the space and such to do it cleanly.
Once again, the floats get moved into the driveway for working after making some cradles to support them upright at the beam bulkheads
1131 Nothing else exciting for pictures here as I was quite covered in fiberglass “snow” falling from the sky after attacking things with the angle grinder for a while to clean up edges, openings and get the flange roughed up for gluing the deck in the near future.
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After setting up some 1⁄4″ plywood wrapped in packing tape for the flat molds, we needed to make the angled flanges for the beam bulkheads. First came the basic (flat) portions of the flange
1094 Then the mold-plate was placed at the proper angle using a hot-glue gun
1098 and all the layers of fabric were put in place (a few at a time), and smoothed gradually worked and smoothed out until they looked good
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Am suffering from a bit of insomnia tonight, so I thought I’d put up a quick post.
Wanted to get the bulkhead flanges done over the weekend, but found myself sick from friday afternoon until sunday afternoon. Feeling ill while wearing a respirator with your head in the confines of a float hull was not appealing, so it will wait until this coming weekend most likely.
On the bright side, some of the float hardware showed up this past week.
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