Day 19

Day 19, 4 more hours of work done.Dad all by his self working on his boat while the help is off training.
Got the boat ready for its filleting.
Put on tape where some gaps could not be closed up with the wires so that the epoxy mixture would not bleed through to the out side of the boat.
Set up the bulkheads, prepared the fiberglass tape. This time I cut off the ridge that last time caused a problem with gaps and ended up having to sand them all down. Once the fillets in the cockpit were established, the pre-rolled fiberglass tape was put on the fillets and gently smoothed out.
Once all of the fillets were taped the cockpit fiberglass was cut to width and placed in the boat without pre-wet out of the fillet tape. The fiberglass was smoothed out then the clear epoxy mixture was applied to the glass and wetted out. After all the glass was wetted with epoxy the bulkheads were given a coat of epoxy mixture.
With a mixture of left over epoxy and wood flour, the bow section was give a generous fillet. All of the epoxy mixture was utilized, none went to waste.

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Day 18

Day 18, 2 more hours of work done. Boat #2 starting to take shape. Tightened all the wires, made sure the boat was straight. Aligned both the bow & stern. Started shaping the bulk heads.

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Day 17

Day 17, 2 1/2 more hours of work done. Twist, two, three, four, Twist, two, three, four... More stiching. We got the bow and stern of the side panels stiched together and are about hald way done with the bottom to side stitch. The second boat is coming along nice and moving a little quicker than the first one.

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Day 16

Day 16, 2 more hours of work done. Tonight we moved forward more on the second boat. We drilled the stitch holes on the bottom panels and wired them together. We also glued the sheer clamps on the side panels. We had some help from kayak pirates while we were working. Also we found out that wearing small strips of leather on your fingers helps protect them while wiring. Compare my dads protected fingers to my unprotected fingers in photos 6 and 7.

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Day 15

Day 15, 3 1/2 more hours of work done. We started on the second boat tonight. We glued the scarf joints for the bottom and side panels and the sheer clamps. It seems to go quicker the second time around, or maybe we are just getting more comfortable around the boats.

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