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Good job on the hull. It really looks nice.

Wellcome to the forum! Great work. The boat looks really nice so far. I needed 10kg of epoxy for all the glassing. It's really important to mix every patch of epoxy for some minutes. I had some problems whith epoxy that did not dry because was not mixed good. And glassing the hull can be messy. Don'...

We had really good weather for October, 13-18 degrees celicius (55-65f). So I had three good building days. On the first day, I sanded the chine, made round corners and then taped it. I still had some smaller bubbles and used an injection-needle to fill them up. 1910_boot1.jpg 1910_boot2.jpg On day ...

Thanks for the Answer. Then i will make one layer. I have seen Rubens pictures. I will do it the same way, with the overlap at the keel.

So next Week, I have another 3-4 days reserved for the Boat. A friend of mine is going to help me. He has some experience, because he has already build a 14 feet dory. My plan is: Sanding the edges of the chine to a curve and repeat the taping - this time hopefully without bubbles. Then I want to go...

Wow, she looks great!

Nice Mountain-View. My epoxy is a noname Produkt. It is written on, that it beginns to harden after 45-60 Minutes at 20 degrees celcius (68f). So it is a medium hardener. When I read the table right, I can work down to 13 degrees Celsius with it. That is good. Then I still got most of october before...

Thanks for the Answer. We are voting here in Austria, that means a lot of work for journalists like me. So I have to wait until the beginning of october, when i have another week for the boat. I hope, that the weather will be nice, usually we have 10 to 20 degrees celcius (50-70f) in october, but it...

Ok. I see the mistake I made. So my next steps should be sanding away the bubbles, make a round corner and then glass the corner of the chine with a second layer of tape?

Then I can glass the whole outside and after that, i rebuild the sharp corner of the chine. Right?

I spent some time of my vacation for the boat and made some Progress. After cutting and glueing the side-panels i could strap them to the molds. I did not need screws for the bottom pannels, after two weeks with screw clamps, the pannel was nicely fitting in place. I straped it to the molds with zip...