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This blog chronicles Mihai's adventures in building and sailing boats.

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Skerry build day 12: more gluing


Today I added fillets at all the chines using epoxy and wood flour. I used a plastic spoon to carefully round over the fillets hopefully saving me some sanding pain later. The process was fairly painless - it just took a while to keep mixing the epoxy between 'runs'. I used about 8-10 oz. of epoxy + filler mixed in two batches. The result (if you can see well) is in the picture below.



I also started painting with epoxy the pieces that make up the rudder assembly. Some parts will never be accessible once I put the rudder together and I need to seal them now. I might go with about 4 layers of epoxy there just in case.

Time: 2 hours
Total: 43 hours

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