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Sunday, July 17, 2011

Skerry build day 34: one last coat of epoxy

Hurray. Today I added one last coat of epoxy on the inside of the boat. Took quite a bit of sanding to get everything smooth as there were many runs from last night. Also, the edge of the fiberglass was sticking up and it took a bit of effort to clean it up. Again, would have been easier to do while the fiberglass was not yet fully dry.

All's good now, took some pains to get everything coated evenly, went over a few times with rollers and the brush, and with the sponge brush. All looks fairly well, though I'm starting to see some 'dry' spots. Not sure if these are truly dry, or if the epoxy had started drying there faster.. In any case, if these give me troubles later I can patch them up as I go.

Daggerboard trunk is done too. If all works well I'll install the daggerboard trunk tonight so that I can start working on the fillets and seats over the next week.

Woohoo. I'm almost there.

Time: 4 hours
Total: 104 hours

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