We've had out of town guests for the past two weekends, so nothing has been done on the boat for awhile.
Since the last post, I've sanded the entire hull with 220 paper on my random orbital sander. It looks okay, but later on I will add another layer, or maybe even two, of epoxy and then sand that down. Right now there are still a few too many high and low spots that could be filled. I could do it now, but I'm anxious to get going on the deck so I'll do it at the end before final sanding. It'll make sanding the sides easier too.
So today I unscrewed the spacers from the table and turned the boat over. The spacers were then unscrewed and were easily pried off from the temporary frames with a quick hammer hit on a putty knife (remember that they were hot-glued on too). I also added some tape to the top of the temporary frames in preparation for the deck gluing coming up shortly.
Then I worked on the butt seam for the top two deck panels. They have a small piece of plywood that epoxies them together and that also creates a small ledge for the recessed deck to fit into later. The bow ends of the two panels need to be crossing over each other to make them perfectly lined up.
Next step: Taping the deck panels onto the hull and epoxying them together (But NOT to the hull yet).
Cheers!
Since the last post, I've sanded the entire hull with 220 paper on my random orbital sander. It looks okay, but later on I will add another layer, or maybe even two, of epoxy and then sand that down. Right now there are still a few too many high and low spots that could be filled. I could do it now, but I'm anxious to get going on the deck so I'll do it at the end before final sanding. It'll make sanding the sides easier too.
So today I unscrewed the spacers from the table and turned the boat over. The spacers were then unscrewed and were easily pried off from the temporary frames with a quick hammer hit on a putty knife (remember that they were hot-glued on too). I also added some tape to the top of the temporary frames in preparation for the deck gluing coming up shortly.
Then I worked on the butt seam for the top two deck panels. They have a small piece of plywood that epoxies them together and that also creates a small ledge for the recessed deck to fit into later. The bow ends of the two panels need to be crossing over each other to make them perfectly lined up.
Next step: Taping the deck panels onto the hull and epoxying them together (But NOT to the hull yet).
Cheers!
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