Filling the weave on the amas (2)

Three hours of work this week end. We swapped the two amas to do the other side of each one following the same procedure. Here's a view during the sanding

and here's the final fiew after the second coat. We had to wait overnight because on saturday afternoon the resin was still too soft.

Total work time to date: 623 hours

Filling the weave on the amas

Three hours of work today to double coat with clear epoxy one side of both amas to fill the weave. We first rearranged the boat like in the pic below

Then we sanded the sides using 120 grit on both power sander and sanding board, to take down protrusions and runs. The, using a foam roller, gave a first epoxy coat before lunch and a second one aftwer 6 hours. Here's the final result.

Next week we'll do the other sides. Total work time to date: 620 hours

Washing the amas

Two hours today to wash the two amas (floats) in order to remove the blush in preparation for an additional epoxy coat. We used a brush and a Scotchbrite pad with running water.
Here's a pic of the two amas before the shower

and here we are, properly dressed, doing the job

Total work time to date: 617 hours

Sanding

Happy New Year everybody! Two hours of unpleasant and hard work yesterday, to sand all aka pieces and deck seats smooth (sort of) in preparation for priming and painting. We used our roto-orbital sander with 60 and 120 grit, as well as hand pads.The lesson is clear: make sure not to have epoxy drips otherwise removing them afterwards is a real pain in the a%%.

Here's a pic of all aka segments

Total work time to date: 615 hours