Deck outer seams cured.
Removed the deck and the frames. Used the frames as templates and using electric wire brought it back to the correct angle.
Made a small fillet and taped the inner side of the deck. After it dured it sems that it is impossible to get it out of shape, but will keep the wire until I put it back on the hull.
- Taped deck
Holes were drilled for the handles rope, PVC pipe inserted and everything covered by epoxy filling at the bow and stern. After everything cured the pipe was sanded flush with the panel. Need to chamfer the inner edges and some final touches - will be done before glassing the deck.
Next the hull inside was glassed. There is a discussion about this in the technical section but to summarize - I realized that I do not have enough cloth to cover both the inside and the deck with a single piece of cloth. So the decision was made to keep enough material to cover the deck as one piece, for appearance purpose, and for the inside tape the seams and cover the bottom in two pieces.
This was done in a single long session: prime the seams area, make fillets, apply the tape and wet it, apply the cloth and wet it. Some material was still missing for full coverage so I decided to skimp on the stern and make sure that the front side gets fully covered, since the stern is more solid (2 frames and the skeg). The front was glassed and the extra cloth from the narrow bow area was used to cover the stern area, but with little to no overlap to the sides.
- cloth covers the front in full
- Glassed - at the rear it can be seen that there is no overlap to the sides
Tomorrow I will get another sheet of 4mm Okume, should have done it in the first place instead of buying the birch. The birch is so heavy and I already made the decision to make the sole out of Okume. It is doable, but only by joining several strips, so I decided to get another sheet, make the sole of one piece and also replace the frames with Okume. for the frames I will laminate 2 layers - one will be a full layer and the other will have some cutouts - this will bring it to the weight and strength of a 6mm piece.
~6 hours