CS23 Build: Open Deck / Closed Transom

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Re: CS23 Build: Open Deck / Closed Transom

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You have a bang-up job on the hull, will make fairing easier. As a hint if you have not seen it before, get under the boat and tape all the seams before you start gluing them on the outside.

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Yes, that would have been a great thing too do :lol:
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Great job! What are those little red wedges? They look like they help align the panels and give a proper gap all at the same time.
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They are tile leveling wedges (DTA tile lippage system).

As you say, they align the panels to the same plane and create a 1mm gap between panels.

Not sure if that 1mm is an issue but for me seems worth the trade off.
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Now all glued and coated in initial coat of epoxy.

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And now I've taped all the seams.

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And sanded them all ready to lay the large sheets.

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No xtra tape on transom to hull bottom? I suppose that would reduce the chance for hook.
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Yeah I forgot those. They went on today.
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Some more progress. I got 2 full layers on the outside.

Took me around 20 hours straight, was a lot of effort.

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And a timelapse of the whole shebang. Unfortunately my camera seems to be having issues with it's autofocus, so a few frames are a bit blurry.

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