Today went by quicker than I had hoped, but accomplished a lot. Planked all the foam for the third float half
724 Added keel foam and trimmed for deck-flange mold
728 Bogged and glued all foam and the deck-flange triangles into place
731 Not much to write for a full day’s worth of work. All that’s needed now is a quick-sand once cured and then laminate the inner skin, and we’ll be ready to join the two halves together.
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Ian sent out some updates for the plans today. Nothing changes, per se, but more makes sense now that I can see a diagram of how the beams attach to the floats. The main part of the update is for the centerboard and centerboard case, which I’m not concerned about since we’re doing a daggerboard. Part of the update included the plans for construction of the daggerboard, but we haven’t decided what to do about that yet.
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I was being a little unrealistic in my goals over the Christmas holiday. Well, my goal was to get exactly where we got, but I was secretly hoping for a little more 🙂 Very productive weekend, however.
Today started out with the removal of all screws holding the float half to the battens
650 This half removed SO much easier than the previous, thanks to putting tape in places that I originally didn’t think epoxy/bog would reach (on deck batten and better on deck-flange mold).
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