Day 28 - Joining the deck to the hull

The hull and deck are now one.
I set the deck on the hull late last night and ran a bead of resin in the joint. Held the two pieces in place with about 50 pieces of strapping tape.
This morning, I removed the tape, and added a second bead of resin to fill in any gaps. After that setup for a few hours, I began sanding the top deck. Due to the amount of resin I squirted all over the boat, there was some limitations on where I could sand. I did get the stern almost sanded and ready for it's top coat of resin. The joint of the deck panels looks pretty good. I did have to put a glob of thickened resin at the very end of the stern and the bow. I'll sand this off tomorrow. I wanted to make sure it was nice and rounded.

With some of the thickened resin that was left over, I put on my LED headset so I could see what I was doing, and ran a fillet of thickened resin between the top deck and the hull. It shows up on the left side of the picture. The white area doesn't yet have any resin. That'll come tomorrow.



I took a picture down the length of the inside to show what it looks like now. Still a bit of work to do to get the inside complete. Tomorrow.