Hull faired and flowcoated ready to roll over

the last few days have been the final fairing and filling of any small blemishes

 and flowcoating the hull,

it is looking really good, no visible bumps where the layers of glass reinforcing were laid up,

 and the fairing compound has been kept to a minimum, thats why it took so long :-)

underneath the flowcoat you can see the circled areas where final filling was applied

very happy with the result

it now needs to fully cure and then its rollover, and interior time - I have also remarked the waterline on the hull while its still level and true. so its simple when the painting starts. One less worry

and todays position of Elblag

 Back to the build

The epoxy and fairing fillers have arrived and the transom has finally had its fairing layer added.

 And the edges of the transom have had their edges added, these were originally radiused in the wood stage, so that the glass fabric could curve around the corner correctly at the glassing stage, now the sharp trailing edge has been added so that the water sheds easily on the wake, they still need to sanded to a fine sharp edge.

The time waiting for the epoxy was not wasted, the interior fillets had a light sand  - it helps that care was taken to create the fillets so not much sanding was needed and some epoxy finger marks were sanded off some of the interior ply panels as well.

 Balticus RTW5 a Setka round the world  -
and epoxy arrives this week

Arkadiusz Pawelek is busy sailing his slightly modified Setka to Plymouth UK for the start of his Balticus RTW5 - Solo, Non-Stop -  Round The World adventure. 

He departed Poland, Trzebieza  August 21 2023-  sailed through the Baltic, past Copenhagen, between Denmark and Sweden into Kattegat, , around Skagerrak, into the North sea, past the Netherlands and into the English channel to Plymouth UK, and after a short break he will set off on the Balticus  RTW5 adventure. 

Arkadiusz has previously completed the Setka Atlantic challenge, and has done some other amazing adventurous things and has recently been helping with delivering humanitarian aid to Ukraine. If you would like to follow him

https://www.facebook.com/ArekPawelek1968/

and can check his tracking 

https://share.garmin.com/T9NXY

AND BIG NEWS!

my order of epoxy and microballoons should be here this week -
THE BUILD CAN CONTINUE...