Sanding, sanding and more sanding (starboard float)

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Using the longboard is something special. You bond with your boat. It’s like… Zen and the art of sanding…. Ok.. Uhm… Yeah.. it’s not fun.. 🙂 It’s a lot of work, but the nice thing is when you step back after an hour or so and can REALLY see the difference. I guess I’ll rewind a little bit. Last week we did a little work, but between being a little tired from allergies lately, switching jobs and the motorcycle racing season starting, I’ve been rather busy.

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Cleaning up inside of floats and making first float deck

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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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