Day 4 - Half done?

The time is 11:30 p.m. Done again for the day. This has been the first Saturday of work. Woke up and pulled the bricks to see what I had. The fiberglass cloth dried perfectly clear - like glass. There's absolutely no way I am going to be able to re-use any of the brushes, unless I want to hammer something with them. I trimmed up the edges of the deck pieces where the fiberglass tape extended over the edges. May want to get an exacto knife for this. Used a utility knife with a fresh blade, and it was slow going. I then had to flip the pieces over and sand smooth the surface of the pieces. Started off with 80 grit, then 120 and then to 220. Pretty smooth when I got done. Then I re-taped the pieces and let them dry while I went to Tyler's football game. Upon returning from the game, I trimmed up the pieces and set them aside.


The next step was to do the other half of the hull and deck pieces. Got things prepped, lined up, and tacked in place. The wire brads I'm using should be filled with the fiberglass when I coat the whole thing later on. I've got pieces of fiberglass tape cut to fit and small pieces of clear plastic to put over the tape. The plastic helps keep the bricks from sticking to the boat. That would be bad.



Here's the joint just after I "wetted out" the joint and put the fiberglass cloth down and the plastic over the top. Now a quick squeegee to smooth it out and put the bricks on.

Tomorrow - flip them over and do the other side. I see that it is going to be a long slow journey to get this built.