Saturday, September 8, 2012

More bottom fairing

Here's a few pictures just to show progress.  This is Thursday evening after more block-sanding and patching:


This was taken today (Saturday morning), showing the results of Friday night's sanding and patching:


As you can see the hull is level again, this is so I could do the port-side notch coat:


Then I propped the hull back up again and block-sanded the starboard side and keel areas again:


You can see the patches are getting smaller and farther apart - yay!  Truth be told though, I don't think the keel area is going to turn out perfectly fair - but it will be good enough, especially for an area only seen by the fishies.

Trivia tidbit:   I have used nearly fifteen (15) lbs of phenolic microballoons to get to this point - obviously a lot of that ended up getting sanded off, and probably 1-2 lbs ended up on the garage floor as excess dust from the mixing process,

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