Re: Point Comfort 23
Posted by MarkR on
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I'll be catching up on recent progress. Haven't been writing much on this forum lately, but work on the boat progresses. This post will document the taping of the chines. Since the 17 ounce biax didn't like going around the chines very well, enough 12 ounce, 6" biax was purchased to do the chines and transom. It's a good compromise between strength and conformability. The tape was applied dry, secured with masking tape, then wetted out with Silvertip Epoxy.
A good close-up is shown below after one application of epoxy.
A second coat of epoxy was applied the next day. This photo shows fairing under the fiberglass. One of the nice things about Silvertip is that the re-coat time without sanding is 72 hours. I never take it to that point, but it's really nice to be able to come back the next day to complete the work rather than working through the night.
Finally a coat of epoxy with 407 was applied to fill all of the little divots caused by the texture of the fabric. Here it's been sanded smooth.
While this was being done, I also taped the forward section of the keelson with two layers of 12 oz biax. The first layer was 6" wide and the second layer was 8" wide. This gives both layers some 'tooth' on the plywood. Sorry, no photos of this but it did go down a lot easier than a single layer of 17 oz would have.
URL: http://riverswest-forums.266.s1.nabble.com/Point-Comfort-23-tp527p572.html
I'll be catching up on recent progress. Haven't been writing much on this forum lately, but work on the boat progresses. This post will document the taping of the chines. Since the 17 ounce biax didn't like going around the chines very well, enough 12 ounce, 6" biax was purchased to do the chines and transom. It's a good compromise between strength and conformability. The tape was applied dry, secured with masking tape, then wetted out with Silvertip Epoxy.
A good close-up is shown below after one application of epoxy.
A second coat of epoxy was applied the next day. This photo shows fairing under the fiberglass. One of the nice things about Silvertip is that the re-coat time without sanding is 72 hours. I never take it to that point, but it's really nice to be able to come back the next day to complete the work rather than working through the night.
Finally a coat of epoxy with 407 was applied to fill all of the little divots caused by the texture of the fabric. Here it's been sanded smooth.
While this was being done, I also taped the forward section of the keelson with two layers of 12 oz biax. The first layer was 6" wide and the second layer was 8" wide. This gives both layers some 'tooth' on the plywood. Sorry, no photos of this but it did go down a lot easier than a single layer of 17 oz would have.
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