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I was going to go with a foam core, but I decided for no reason, to take a mold of the original and use the mold to make a compressed laminate. I...
My cat had older point bows and would go down the mine when pressed. Most of the GBE class were modified to have the bows shortened (and a bit...
Thank you! The engineers offered to caste a new strut from the old one for some $3.5k. I've made a few critical parts from composite/glass/carbon...
She has a BMC 1.5lt/27hp diesel which is in remarkably good condition - the oil is still golden! The gearbox is an ancient Watermota J-type. Very...
Osmosis clearly visible
Port float by Dambo posted Oct 12, 2022 at 10:51 PMStbd float by Dambo posted Oct 12, 2022 at 10:51 PMCabin by Dambo posted Oct 12, 2022 at 10:51...
Glassed, unpainted. Foam deck on hard word plate
Stem given the black magic treatment
In poor condition, water ingress through/around chain plate and bow roller.
New deck and glass, unpainted. The floats had to be resurfaced from one end to the other - this seems to be the only photo from the process
New stern tube, strut and prop shaft fitted
Painted
Cracks in the surface paint are actually cracks that go through approx. 5 layers of paint, and through the skim/substrate, to the fiberglass
Scraped back to the fiberglass
Strut cleaned and glued beside mold for composite strut
6 layers of tri-axial glass in a star pattern