Fairing  & SANDING!!!!!

for the last 2 or 3 weeks all that has happened is the boat has had fairing epoxy applied and then it was sanded smooth with a longboard, it is almost done yeah yeah it is almost done, 

some more sweat is needed, but it is looking great, there is another layer of glass to be added to the bow (rather a layer of glass to get it fairer -  than a layer of microbaloons), and the area at the sheerline has been left fairing free so that when the cabin sides  and deck are added then the hullsides can be bondedd together, and then it will get its fairing.

It is not a very photogenic or exciting stage of the construction.

Fairing

 The boat is all glassed and fairing is in progress, this is the part that I said I would not bore you with hundreds of pictures, the goal is to put on the thinnest layer of fairing epoxy mix, and to get the boat fair, the mistake commonly made is to put on a thick layer of fairing mix and then to spend time sanding it off to create a very expensive dust.

if you would like to read more about epoxy, reinforcing with epoxy glass, and composite wooden boat construction have a look at the following link to the downloadable version of the west BIBLE on epoxy.

the gougeon brothers on boat construction

This has been my GO -TO reference on all things epoxy and boat repair ever since I built my Wharram Tiki 26, it answers every question you are likely to have about tool,s plywood, wood as a construction material, hull construction technoques, tanks, deck construction, fillets, fillers, prepping for paint and plywood  and composite construction. And more!

 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