Day 26: Fairing in Passenger Areas

Today was an big day with the respirator.  The first coat of fairing compound went onto the passenger areas as well as the boatman's footwell.

This is a shot with the stern in the foreground and the bow in the background.  The purple is the fairing compound.

This shot is Bow to Stern.

I'm using Raka's phenolic microballoons for the fairing compound.  It sands very easily. (once its fully cured)  Its really tough to mix correctly though.  Too little and it runs all over the place, too dry and it doesn't spread and that sweet spot in between is really hard to hit.  Its a very narrow window.  When I do the second round on the hull I will try to come up with a formula to make the mixing step a little more consistant and better quality.

I also laid down a little fairing compound in the corners of the hatches and along the areas where gravity will collect debris.  Hoping this will make it easier to sponge out the dirt.

In the background you can see some wood paste dots on the hull.  These are from the screw holes from our scarf joint.  The wood really soaked up our wood flour paste that we put down before the glass and now there are still some depressions.  No air pockets though...whew!!

This is a shot of the inside transom.  We put an extra 12"x12" piece of 6oz and a 6"x4"biax cloth on the zone where the stern U-Bolt will be drilled.

We did this on the inside of the bow post as well.