Today I finished the centerboard trunk; it has been quit the project. It has taken me 4 days to finish, most of the time it was just waiting for things to dry along the way. I have sanded it most of the way so there will be less prep for paint later. I have learned many things about resin and fiberglass by doing the trunk inside section in glass. This will be very useful when I start to do the bottom of the boat later.
I came up with an idea today to hold my frames on the jig pretty well. I screwed some 2x4 scraps to the jig vertical and then c-clamped from the side of the frames to the side of the 2x4 pieces, (see pictures attached). It worked really well and all is square and secure.
I have the frame mounts attached to the end of the center board trunk for everything to hook to on the jig. Tomorrow I will start to align the frames with the trunk; I am sure its going to be tedious some. I am looking forward to getting all the frames on the jig; it will look like I am doing something I suspect.
I had some time this evening and went ahead and glued part of frame 5 so it can dry overnight. I will glue the other half tomorrow morning so it will be drying during the day. I had to trim the laminated sections back to fit the center log. On the print it does not show doing that but it overlaps and there is no clearance for it on the back side. Attached pictures.
I came up with an idea today to hold my frames on the jig pretty well. I screwed some 2x4 scraps to the jig vertical and then c-clamped from the side of the frames to the side of the 2x4 pieces, (see pictures attached). It worked really well and all is square and secure.
I have the frame mounts attached to the end of the center board trunk for everything to hook to on the jig. Tomorrow I will start to align the frames with the trunk; I am sure its going to be tedious some. I am looking forward to getting all the frames on the jig; it will look like I am doing something I suspect.
I had some time this evening and went ahead and glued part of frame 5 so it can dry overnight. I will glue the other half tomorrow morning so it will be drying during the day. I had to trim the laminated sections back to fit the center log. On the print it does not show doing that but it overlaps and there is no clearance for it on the back side. Attached pictures.
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