Boga, (boat Yoga)

Its a new yoga pose, fitting under the lip of the lido's deck to sand and laminate.

This morning Lisa joined me and we measured out the positions of the boat's hull-to-deck supports. First, it gets laminated. That was the step we set out to accomplish today.

We sanded down to fiberglass, wet up two layers of 200 gram cloth with the weave at +/-45 degrees. I chose to wet out the layers at the same time, this saved half the work as we only had to cut once, wet out once, and laminate onto the boat once.

Immediately apply peel-ply and brush onto the surface of the carbon. Make sure to clean with acetone and prime the surface of the boat with epoxy before laminating onto it. Laminate needs to be properly wet-out and use a brush with clipped bristles or roller to make sure there are no air bubbles.

Here's how it turned out.


This process is not finished. We need to manufacture supports and bond them on as well.

Also on the plate today, the painting of the transom. We threw on the first coat and used the same stuff I used for the hull.
Its an excellent barrier coat, performs like a primer, and sets up very very hard. If not wet-sanded in hull applications within 3 days, it becomes an absolute chore.

Here's the transom sealed with epoxy.

Gave it a good sand and applied first coat.
Also, we put on the preventers for the shrouds using a Ronstan tang and some dyneema. Lisa did her first splice, beautiful eh?