Well, all the glass cured perfectly just as Lonnie knew it would. We trimmed off the edges and then moved on to tackling the glass for the bottom of the boat.
Lonnie used a jigsaw to cut the rough shape of the bottom. He used a template that he had made from previous boat builds.
Meanwhile, my Dad and I cut the scarfs on the 1/4" ply for the sides of the boat. This is a pic of me using the power planner to make the initial cuts. Whew, a little nerve racking! It was a heavy and powerful tool. I was terrified I was going to take a huge gouge out of the edge.
Tom fine tunes.
Perfect.
With the bottom cut. All 3 of us worked on getting it glassed. We rotated positions as 2 people spread the epoxy with putty knives and 1 would mix the epoxy. It was a 3 person effort to lay the glass and get it wetted out. Went smoothly with 6 hands... well more like 7. Lonnie counts as 3.
We set it on top of the mold to free up the table for the sides.
We glued and set the scarf joint with the same procedure as the bottom scarf. Each side had two scarfs and we glued them all up at the same time for a total of 4 scarfs.
At this point the shop was maxed out on space. We set the thermostat to 60 and headed to the woods to cut some firewood.
Kleo the cat came to do a final inspection.
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