Building a small trolling boat.

BTW hoyt, how much finnish you know?

L

 

Tiedän, mitä Google kertoo minulle.

 

Ah, okey then. Finnish language is a bit tricky for all the computer based systems to translate, so I think Google did a fair job. Only the two last words are basically useless in that sentence.

L

 

Thanks. You are being kind. In English I said that I know what Google says I know. No more.

 

What happens if you ask Google to translate it back again?

 

I know what Google is telling me what I know.

 

I don't know half the stuff that Google is telling me, even after it tells me

 

It is an interesting diversion.

 

Seems you guys have been busy here.

I recoated the mold in the morning and a couple of hours ago cleaned the boat. I pinned the mold in place using two wood strips long enough to reach the side battens. Then I mixed some resin, let it sit till it changed colour, cut a piece of fiberglass and then I took a plunge. Turns out I did a good job with the mold, it held without any hint of giving out. I also laminated some glass strips to the keel line.

Lurvio

 

We wait with gleeful anticipation.

 

While the cat's away the mice will play ...

 

The mold now rests on the floor, the biggest piece about the size of my fist.

Better take the camera along as I go resume the work.

L

 

I think it's time for a picture update. Most is already said in previous posts, so on to the pics.

Lucinda sunbathing. Took parts of two days to get the first resin layer dry. I think I was too hasty after staining and the resin reacted with some solvent in the stain. It did dry eventually and didn't seem any different than normally dried resin.


Aft deck framing


Made a slip with the hand plane and had to glue a bit of ply back to the side.




The mold after second (more succesful) fairing and I think the fourth coat of PVAc. (take note)


Mold in use, it held well. I also layed some glass reinforcement to the keel.




Well, then came the time to remove the mold. I only had one layer of 290 gsm cloth on so heavy measures were a bit limited. I only layed one layer on the mold as I wanted most of the glass inside the boat, earier to keep the tunnel shape that way. When the mold didn't want to let go in one piece, I hacked it in to bits with all sorts of tools I had around. The fairing between the PVAc layers (noted above) proved to be a weak point so I could rip out most of the mess by hand. What was left were a thin layer of putty and two layers of PVAc glue and they did not want to release. I tried scraping, sanding, chiseling and finally a bit of water and again scraping. The mess started to give way slowly.

I had an idea to wet some papertowels to soften the glue, I covered the paper with a plastic wrap and went away for two hours. When I returned it was a relief to find most of the mess could be skinned away with a chisel and the rest scraped off pretty easily. Some sanding and I had a clean fiberglass surface to continue the layup.

The mold after removal.


And some more glass. In all there is (from bottom side) two layers of 290 gsm woven fabric, two layers of probably 600 gsm matt and a finishing layer of 290 gsm fabric. Should be enough.


Today I finally tackled the sheer fairing. Turned out to be a lot easier than I feared. I started by fairing short spots at the frames, then pulled a masking tape in a nice line to mark where to fair and let rip. The angle grinder again made quick work and in no time at all I was covered in fine dust, as was the boat and everything close by. A bit of hand plane to finnish it of and the job well done.




Nice frosting on the boat.


Also the aft deck framing is now glued on and faired.




Tomorrow to shopping, more resin, glass and some bilge paint.

2:14 AM, better get some shut eye.

Lurvio

 

Good moorning! Time to wake up..
Nice work..

 

Already am. Thank you.

L