Even more!
Even more!
Painting and grinding. Tim’s working on mast cradles, hatches, rudders..
Tom’s on keel skins. Here’s the starboard keel skin dry-stacked plumbed and ready for vacuum bagging.
Port keel skin being shot..
Starboard keel skin bagged and ready to pull vacuum.
Starboard keel skin being shot.
Starboard skin getting closer. Tom’s babysitting it.
He’s looking worried holding a catalyst bottle ‘cause I’m on the near side out of the picture going on about running out of resin and could he hurry a little please?
Here they both are shot, debagged cleaned up and the inside sanded.
Monday we’ll pull ‘em and they will get trimmed up and ready to assemble into keels.
Another hatch ready to come out if the mold. These are some of the bits Tim’s been working on.
Along with the current “last mold”.
I didn’t get a picture, but Gavin has been busy waxing the deck mold. Tom has been doing a lot of “Well, we only have these few left then its the deck..”
Lets see, what do we have left?
Wood/composite side panels. Another set of keel skins. Bunch of rudders. Couple liners, couple liner hatch sets and a couple keel trunks. Tom has been busy upgrading the keel trunk mold. That’s another project I haven’t got any picture of.
We ran out of 1700 biax glass. And why? Because we insisted on the buying the US made stuff as opposed to the “Its exactly the same” Offshore version. Also costs 50% more. We tested some “offshore” glass earlier this year. It had contaminates in it that caused areas that wouldn’t wet out in the infusion. We don’t trust that stuff yet.. Maybe later?
Anyway, that’s where we stand tonight.
Friday, December 14, 2012