November 27, 2024

PT11-24

Wednesday

I pulled the peel ply strips to reveal the  tabbing beneath.  In many cases, it was tough to get the peel ply started, as I should have used wider strips that would have left more of the release fabric unsaturated, but once I got a section lifted, it was easy to pull off the rest.

Afterwards, I sanded around the tabbing as needed to clean up the edges and surrounding hull, and lightly scuff the fiberglass itself.

I also lightly sanded as needed the minor repairs to the fillets I’d completed last time.

Next, I completed several shaping and preparation steps with the upper bulkhead gussets, including rounding over the tips where they terminated into the bulkhead, and some other preparations for installing a layer of 6 oz. cloth over the gussets and adjacent gunwales, which I did next.  I left portions of the fiberglass overhanging with intentions to trim the excess later.

Now was a good opportunity to add two layers of 6 oz. cloth to the forward edge of the daggerboard trunk where it met the hull.  I applied several strips of peel ply over the fiberglass.

Now that the hull tabbing was complete, I could think about the aft tanks/seat assemblies.  I test-fit the longitudinal side panels, fitting them to the slots in the transom and taping to the short bulkheads at the forward ends, and cut to fit some cleat stock provided for the purpose along the top, inner edges of the panels; then, I epoxied the cleats in place on the bench.  Note that the angle formed by these panels is designed so that the bow of the boat, when nested, will fit right in there.

This seemed a good place to end things for the day.

Total time billed on this job today: 6 hours