… or… That’s a lot of fabric!
We did the forward side of both forward beam mounts late last night – I don’t have a picture of it due to lighting, but it was a long 3 hours in a pretty cramped space. If you’ve thought about putting in the anchor-well before laminating this area – DON’T! 🙂 I’m very glad we haven’t installed it yet.
The following two pictures are of the unidirectional fabrics and compression pad hard-wood.
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Been slow going, but I took this week off from work to hopefully get “caught up” on things.
Last time we managed to get the forward beam compression area formed up and laminated
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This was relatively straight-forward after confirming with Ian that the portion of the former that protrudes into the hull can be sanded more “flush” with the interior before laminating.
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These pictures are from two weekends ago; everything has been slow going the past 2 months. Dad had some stuff come up that kept him unable to work on the boat for about 6 weeks. We managed to get this “little” bit done, and now I’ve come down with a nasty case of strep throat for the past week that isn’t reacting to antibiotics so I’m going back to the doctor tomorrow.
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