Here We Go Again

[nestorpr]

Thanks guys!

[strick]

Pictures showing the mold with lay up complete. There are 4 layers of 1/2 ounce matt and 4 layers of 1708. The corners were reinforced with 4 inch 1708 tape.



All cured and ready to be popped out. My kids gave me a little help with this part. I told them it's kinda like a Christmas present when you cant wait to see what you have inside.



As you can see the edge with the bigger radius was still a little wet and gooey. Thus all the fibers. This was the edge were I used the brown Oven craft clay. It was a wet (water based) clay and I think the moisture leaked into the glass in this area. It's not as bad as it looks and will sand out easily once I dry that edge.

More pics




All in all I'm happy with the way it turned out and I'll hopfully be glassing it to the transom this weekend.

strick

[Bryan A.]

Strick, Do you think plummers putty would work better, I believe it is an oilbased non-hardening clay.

[strick]

Bryan- I think it probably would work. I had never used the water based stuff before but I thought I'd give it a try because it smoothed out really well. The stuff on the right in the pics above works really well it's almost like wax.

Not much done today. Cut the cap for a rough fit.


strick

[strick]

I took plastic sheeting cut into 5 inch strips. I wiped some wax on them and then glassed 2 layers of 2 ounce matt to the waxed surface.


These were then screwed to the gunnel cap at the locations that need to be filled in.





After the glass dries the plastic will come out and the glass will stay making good backing to fill in these locations. I will reinforce the front and back sides of these areas. I left them long so they can be trimmed once glassing is complete.

I extended the floor to the transom and cut out an area for the scuppers.



I wasted about 2 hours today trying to figure out how to make the old scuppers work. I liked that they dipped down into a little bowl before going out the transom. I finally scraped the idea and will go with something else.

The transom cap preped for tabbing to the hull. I ground a 3 inch area were the 1708 tape will adhere to.



tempory cleats help to keep the cap in a level position.




Tape cut to length and ready to be glassed. The stuff on top will glass the cap to the inside of the transom.



Tabbed into place.




when this dries I will glass the outside of the cap to the transom.

A shot showing the arch



Strick

[Bryan A.]

As always, nice work. Where do you find the time?

[finestkind]

Looking great Strick!!!! keep em comming !!!!

[thehermit]

DITO....Awesome work as always. I am really enjoying your work as it is freezing here on this sandbar and my project is on ice (literally)…keep em coming!

[FELLOW-SHIP]

Great work Strick “Your Da Man” you have taught me a lot about making molds with fiberglass. When I did my boat I didn’t even think about doing much with making molds first I used the typical fix it up approach of doing transoms, removing and replacing lamination and replacing decks, and doing caps, filling up holes and re doing things like that.
The way you go about things is how boat builders do stuff not like a fix it up guys like myself. I have done a few things with molds like making rod holder box for the sides of my center consol and making a 32 gal live well but other than that not much. You should start a boat building co and leave this fix up stuff to us armatures.

FellowShip

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[Snookerd]

The real definition of "pulling a strick" is what we see here: recreating the curved classic stern with well documented shots