Not too much happened on
the project this week once again. Excepting saturday. I had two friends help
me with sanding the bottom paint. We sanded for about 1.5 hours and got about
24sqft of the bottom sanded and about 1 side sanded. There is still about 7/8
or so of the bottom left to paint.
Here you see the blisters, now years old that we sanded through.
That is the line where the bottom paint sanding stopped, about a foot after
the tight part of the trunk, which is about halfway down the boat. It is only
this far on one side.
Here is the now famous Over Keel Krack. It seems to have closed up even more
since I got the keel out. I have not left much fiber exposed on the outside
since the structural part of my repair will be on the inside. I will still probably
put 2 layers of fiber here, and 3 inside for a total of 5 new layers plus the
rebonding of the original. It should be stronger than before when I am done.
Keel is on the back burner for now, but I need to take it off before it gets
burnt :). I will probably not get much done again this weekend except maybe
glassing one side of the crack. Who knows though...we will see.
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