Day 14 - Gluing the hull

I spent Saturday gluing the hull panels together. Started off with a first application of resin. That resin ran pretty good, but penetrated most of the nooks and crannies. You can see where it ran down the hull. After I figured out that I needed to wipe down the drips, it will make the cleanup go a lot smoother. I started some of the gluing on Friday night and didn't clean up. Those drips are now rock hard and I'll have to sand or scrape them off. Lesson learned.

After a couple hours of set time, I put on a second application of resin. This was thickened with wood flour. This didn't run as much, and filled the gaps a bit more. After wiping down the hull and scraping any drips, I let it sit for an hour, then flipped the boat over.

I then added some thickened resin to the inside of the hull at all of the joints and reinforced the bow and stern with more resin. I applied all the resin with a 10ml syringe. It worked pretty well. Cleaned it up with acetone afterwards. After it sits overnight, then I need to pull the wires.