Fiberglassing the amas (4)

Just one hour last night to fiberglass the two deck pads

Totale work time to date: 448 hours

Rudder (2)

Two more hours, yesterday, to continue shaping of the rudder blade with power plane, Surforms, rasp and sander (40 grit). Here is how it looked at the beginning

and here it is after two hours, almost done...

Total work time to date: 447 hours

Fiberglassing the amas (3)

Four hours between last night and this morning to fiberglass the deck of the first ama. Here's a pic of the (tedious) preparation of the surface with the rotoorbital sander and 120 grit.

The fiberglass (160 g/sq.m.) was then cut to size and laminated on the deck using about 500 g of epoxy. The two large aka bearings will be fiberglassed later because we had to fill several screw holes.

This morning we checked that everything was ok, cut away the useless fiberglass from the deck porthole opening, and removed the rough edges of the fiberglass using a Surform and a sanding pad.

Total work time to date: 445 hours.

Fiberglassing the amas (2)

We had to skip the last two week ends due to personal commitments, the last one being my son Giovanni's graduation cerimony at the University of Glasgow.

Anyway, this moring we worked two hours fiberglassing the other side of the starboard ama, using the same approach that we used before. Her's a pic of the fiberglass being draped on the hull side

We then cut it to size and laminated it using about 600 cc of resin and a roller.

Next step will be fiberglassing the ama deck. Last week Cinzia worked about one hour to prepare the hull for today.

Total work time to date: 441 hours

Fiberglassing the amas (1)

Three hours to fiberglass one side of the first ama. We first sanded the side with 120 grit on the rotoorbital, in particular to feather the edge of the bottom fiberglass but also to take down drips and the like.

We then draped the 160 g/sq.m.FG on the side and cut it to size with scissors

 and then wetted out the FG in place with about 600 grams of epoxy spread out with a roller.

Total work time to date: 438 hours

Rudder (1)

Three hours of work this week end. We finished the daggerboard (which is now ready for fiberglassing) and continued working on the rudder blade, which has a particular shape. Here it is:

After cutting the laminated plank to shape I started to use the power plane to give the blade a NACA profile. Here's how it looks now

Total work time to date: 435 hours

More pics of the blades

Two more pics of the appendages as they look now. First is the daggerboard, almost ready for glassing and finish. This is a big and heavy daggerboard by the way: about 120 x 40 cm, 3.5 cm thick.

This is the rudder stock, which will have to be cut to shape, with the "NACA grooves" cut on both sides of the blade, ready for planing.