I’ll spare the boring details of fairing the float – suffice to say that we’re still making (slow) progress on it. Have been spending some time fairing and then some time doing other bits to keep prepping for the main hull.
This weekend I joined the daggerboard case. Due to some other commitments I was unable to rip the spacers needed during the week, and dinner out with friends of the family meant it was too late to fire up the saw Saturday evening.
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Very short weekend but still accomplished a few things…
Full layer of fairing compound on the outside face of the port float is being faired
2009 Also painted the inside of the daggerboard case halves with the System Three Waterborne LPU – just brushed it on because, well, the only thing that MIGHT see the inside of the case are fish, and even then the board will be in the way.
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Not too much to write here as it’s been seen before, but the port float (outside face) is being faired first
1994 also took the time to (ugh) fair the inside of the daggerboard case (very quickly, mind you) because of the issue with the port half of the case.
1998 The starboard half is in primer right now and I ordered a few more gallons of high-build primer from System Three, as well as a quart of dark grey WLPU for the inside of the case.
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