Hull glassing

the hull has been glassed. The bow panels where there were relieving cuts to enable nice bends were filled with west filler and then they were glassed over with one layer of glass, another layer was then put on the panel , so there is a double layer over the relief cut area - 

I decided after much consideration to run my hull glass as a horizontal layup rather than using lots of vertical pieces with lots of overlaps. this worked really well with my 80cm wide glass cloth, as each panel is narrower than 80cm 

 Hull ready for Full Glass layer

The hull is prepped for the full layer of glass. The final layer of glass on each of the joins was laid down wider than the the last and feathered into the ply using a sander

My new sander -  the last Dewalt sander I have, had a problem with the platen bearing -  granted after 12 years of use and Dewalt say the part is obsolete  - I have however found a  replacement  - it uses a special dry unlubricated bearing, So I had to order 10 pcs, it will take a while to arrive  - so welcome to my new DW, still made in Mexico and the same price or a little cheaper than its older sibling, it does have a better dust bag and extraction - maybe just because it is younger

 Glassing and other bits and bobs from last week

glued in the infill for the Sapele mast support, the prepared Sapele mast support is really heavy as are the keel bearers/frames so they will be installed once the boat is turned so gravity can assist - the inside fillets were all done when the hull panels and bottom panels were glued on so that the hull frames, bulkheads and stringers are chemically bonded with the hullsides and hull bottom, a huge amount of wet on wet filletting was done at the hullside and bottom glueing stage to ensure super strength

all the edges were well radiased so the glass lies well over the edges

6 layers of glass 1200 gms on the bottom chine and 3 layers 600gm on the side chine

and peel ply to smooth it all and reduce sanding 

pulling off the peelply with the lights off creates "peelply borealis", 

Its a weird phenomenon, but I could not capture it on video

sorry for the lack of pictures but glassing is a sticky process