Ok between yesterday and today I have been working on fiber glassing and assembling the centerboard trunk. I have been doing quite a bit of research to see what is going to be the cheapest way to do the fiber glassing. By doing the centerboard trunk now it’s giving me an idea what is going to be involved in doing the bottom of the boat. Here are some of the things I have done so far to check to see how hard it would be to buy some of the materials local to do this. First of all I live in a small town and my options are not big, there are three hardware stores, one with a lumber yard, and one auto parts store. First I went to them all looking for the resin and only could find it at the hardware stores in quantities of like 2 oz. or so. My auto body friend said the auto parts store should have it and he was right. They at least had enough fiberglass cloth and resin in stock to finish the trunk. They had the cloth in an 8x8 sheet and that is the biggest they offer so getting any large pieces local is out. They had the resin in quart sizes and I purchased two. They also have the resin in gallons on special order, the gallon price is $79 and the 8x8 section of cloth was $13. After looking on eBay for a while and the net for a better deal there really isn’t any. I have decided that I will be purchasing the kit that Glen L offers for $416 in the next couple of weeks. They also throw in some accessories for the application process that I wouldn’t get any other way and the pricing is about the same as everyone else. They also have the material in one piece rolls so that will make it easier to keep a nice finish for later sanding.
I worked on the trunk preparing to apply the fiber glass today. I rounded up some router bits to bevel all the edges and then I belt sanded the frame all smooth and square. I have mounted the trunk logs vertical on both ends with a sheet of the ¼ plywood. I attached with all the nails they required in the directions which looks like way to many. I set them all below the surface with a punch and plan to Bondo over them when I paint the trunk later. I also screwed the outside trim piece and the bottom to the trunk and sanded it all smooth. Then I flipped it over and proceeded to lay the glass. It all went pretty well and towards the end it started setting up already so I had to work faster and scrape off any excess resin. I didn’t think it would harden that fast and I worked at a pretty good pace hoping to avoid any of that. This all showed me that I will need to work a smaller area when I lay the bottom of the boat later. I figure about a 2x2 foot area max which takes a little under a half quart to do. Tomorrow I will be sanding it smooth on the inside and will get the second half ready to attach.
The fiber glassing is going to be a little slower that I expected so I can do only a little at a time right now. I have cut and tried to finish out anything else I could on the prints and have worked ahead as far as I can right now. Today while that was all setting up I beveled the edge angles on the rudder and also rounded the tiller arm. Tomorrow after I finish glassing the trunk I will probably fit the tiller arm to the rudder. Until I get the trunk finished and dried out it will be slowing me some.
I found a pretty good deal on eBay that I have been working for a while. I found someone selling the original made for the Glen L 15 sails. I have made several offers on them and we finally settled at $355. It took me a while to get them to post pictures and I didn’t want to buy any old junk sails. They say they are like new and from the pictures they look pretty good from the pictures they finally posted for me. They should be in my hands next week and I will be posting the pictures they had of them also. That was half price from Glen L there’s are $700 so I hope they are good.
Thanks for the comment Michael I am glad someone else is reading what I am going through and can relate to what a project it is. I really am enjoying it though, if you have any comments on any section that you are working on as well post them and I will approve them to be put in the Blog so someone else might see a different perspective to our builds. Pictures attached
I worked on the trunk preparing to apply the fiber glass today. I rounded up some router bits to bevel all the edges and then I belt sanded the frame all smooth and square. I have mounted the trunk logs vertical on both ends with a sheet of the ¼ plywood. I attached with all the nails they required in the directions which looks like way to many. I set them all below the surface with a punch and plan to Bondo over them when I paint the trunk later. I also screwed the outside trim piece and the bottom to the trunk and sanded it all smooth. Then I flipped it over and proceeded to lay the glass. It all went pretty well and towards the end it started setting up already so I had to work faster and scrape off any excess resin. I didn’t think it would harden that fast and I worked at a pretty good pace hoping to avoid any of that. This all showed me that I will need to work a smaller area when I lay the bottom of the boat later. I figure about a 2x2 foot area max which takes a little under a half quart to do. Tomorrow I will be sanding it smooth on the inside and will get the second half ready to attach.
The fiber glassing is going to be a little slower that I expected so I can do only a little at a time right now. I have cut and tried to finish out anything else I could on the prints and have worked ahead as far as I can right now. Today while that was all setting up I beveled the edge angles on the rudder and also rounded the tiller arm. Tomorrow after I finish glassing the trunk I will probably fit the tiller arm to the rudder. Until I get the trunk finished and dried out it will be slowing me some.
I found a pretty good deal on eBay that I have been working for a while. I found someone selling the original made for the Glen L 15 sails. I have made several offers on them and we finally settled at $355. It took me a while to get them to post pictures and I didn’t want to buy any old junk sails. They say they are like new and from the pictures they look pretty good from the pictures they finally posted for me. They should be in my hands next week and I will be posting the pictures they had of them also. That was half price from Glen L there’s are $700 so I hope they are good.
Thanks for the comment Michael I am glad someone else is reading what I am going through and can relate to what a project it is. I really am enjoying it though, if you have any comments on any section that you are working on as well post them and I will approve them to be put in the Blog so someone else might see a different perspective to our builds. Pictures attached
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