Back to it.

So between working the last couple of weekends and the weather being a tad naff things have been a bit slow on the building front. This weekend was a long weekend and I have made some fair progress. The pics don't tell much of a story but I am happy with the speed with which it has been accomplished. So what have I done. Firstly I have started to fair up the bow area. Due to having to bend the ply quite severely to make it fit, just the nature of the design, there was a bit of deviation from the straight lines that it should be so I have had to fill and sand to establish the line. I have used a fairing mix made up of epoxy resin and glass bubbles which is a lightweight and easy to sand mixture once set.

There is a bit more to do but mostly there. The halogen lights are more for heat than light. There is more fairing being done around the hull as well.

I am slowly starting to fair the hull panel joints as well using any excess mixture left over from the other fairing. That way I don't waste anything.

I have also started sanding any epoxy drips inside the hull. There will be a single layer of 300 grams per metre square fibreglass tape inside and out and the drips inside will affect the tape laying down properly on the chine joints. No pics of that but I'm about 60% done with that.

Finally I have started to round off the outside chine joints to allow the glass tape to be able to take the curve around the joints. Fibreglass doesn't like to go round corners and the biax tape I have is very good at going round edges but still needs a bit of help which is why the rounded edges down to around 6mm radius.

I am on holiday the first week of December so hopefully I'll be able to make some really good progress, I'll keep you posted.