Day 12: Trailering the Hull back to Seattle

The boat is home safe on Whidbey Island. We loaded it on the trailer this morning for the 6 hour drive from Idaho. The fillets and glass were well cured and hopefully kept out the water from the rainy drive.

View from bow to stern of the gunwale after the clamps came off.

Here are some pics of the epoxy/wood powder caps on the transom and bow post.

Transom closeup

Bowpost cap

Closeup

The boat emerging from the shop.

Also a couple pics of out morning routine at Gail & Lonnie's; morning tea, great breakfast and the Lewiston paper.

Leaving the shop.

Leaving Lonnie & Gail's and pointing it to Seattle.

Day 9: Hull/Mold Separation and Fillets

Today was a good day. We popped the hull off the mold. It came off immediately -no problem....well, after I found that last screw holding it in place.

Then we cut the excess wood from the sides with a jigsaw and then fine tunned with a plane.

After sanding we began the process of filleting the inside of the hull.

Pic of Lonnie showing us how its done.  He had some perfectly cut fillet spreaders for the job.  We copied him and went right to it.  Definitely a tiring job, especially in the bow and stern.

We laid in a special fillet blend then immediately glassed with 6", 4" and 2" tape along the bottom and just one layer of appropriate tape for the verticals.  (Bow and Transom got all the layers)

With my Dad wetting out the tape and myself pulling the fillets it still took all day.

Tom cleans up the wounds in the glass from where the screws held the scarf joint together.

Day 7: Hull fiberglassing

Dad and I sport our fabulous glassing outfits.

We all had a long day wearing a respirator but it was worth it. With 3 people the glassing of the hull went smoothly.

First thing this morning we cut the glass this morning and went straight to it.

We wetted out the 17oz biaxial cloth on the bottom.

Next was the 6oz on the sides.

Then 9oz on the bottom.

Then 6oz halfway up the sides.

A final 6oz on the bottom.

Next came the 6oz tape; 6", 3", 2" on the chine, transom and bowpost.

Now the waiting game until a good cure. Next step will be to pop it off the mold. We have our fingers crossed!!