Pinguino Hull Sanded

I sanded the bare-wood hull today. For the most part I used my random orbital sander with 120 grit paper.... but fair warning.... it can take off a LOT of material VERY quickly. So unless you're fairly practiced with a random orbital sander, I would suggest you hand sand or use no more than 220 paper on the ROS until you get used to how it works!

Here's how it looks now.

Yes, the stern didn't match up as well as I had hoped. Deal with it. The large gap got filled and will be fine, but doesn't look that great. When I helped my friend build his last year, he had the same issue. Starting to wonder if it's a design thing and if they should add a few millimeters to that panel. Weird, huh?

Notice that you can still see plenty of epoxy smears. They will all disappear under the fiberglass in the near future. Don't try to sand them all off!

The ends were pretty easy to round over and clean up.

Be VERY cautious when rounding over the seams, ESPECIALLY the seam between panels #3 and #4. You want to just barely round it over without cutting through the top layer of wood. It will be very obvious if you are showing the second layer.

And yes, if you are looking closely, my #4 panel is forward of the other butt seams by about a millimeter. Ugh. Gawd... Oh well.

Tomorrow I'll run a strip of fiberglass cloth tape down the keel and epoxy that on.

Then it's on to fiberglassing the hull but that will probably have to wait until next week... the rest of this week is booked with work and other things. Sigh...

Cheers!

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