Deck Hull Joint

Lance didn't come today because he was sick so I couldn't get a ride to school. I was late. We joined the deck and the hull together.

This is what I did yesterday but looks ugly. It was all good until the carbon laminating but working after getting this tube into the prow was not easy. Most of sharp bits have been sanded because this part is going to be exposed later on.

Classmates and Chris was preparing all stuffs to get the deck on wearing those dust proof suits. We peeled unpeeled peel ply and sanded joint part and clear up part beyond the bulkhead.

We didn't peel the peel ply in front of the bulkhead because we can do that anytime getting into the cabin.

Nice.

I made two pieces of foam for preventing the water coming into prow. I did trial and error and got the shape. Sketch on a piece of cardboard, fit them, trasfer them onto a piece of foam, fit them.

This part is so solid. It won't go anywhere. The hull might rather being worried. I am going to laminate one more layer of glass on this on the coving.

We put some pieces of wood just below that line to support the front deck, otherwise it goes down by weight itself. We used hot glue gun.

We used west system this time and they are putting the glue in proper thickness.

We used some wooden jig to get the deck down to sheer height. Make sure try to push it gently.

Resin from the flange against the transom.

We can see resin coming out from transom.

To push the transom forward, we used similar method to the jig on the deck.

We set these plank up to get enough weight, roughly 20kg each, on the bulkhead, using reasonably thick ones. We put one more on outboard to push the transom down. We have to make sure not to push too hard so that resin inside squashed or not to repeat pushing and releasing.

We are going to cut that front part for the fuller.

Ogi and Tristan cove inside front side of the deck underneath as well as this part between the bulkhead and the floor. They also did a little gap just behind the bulkhead. How are we gonna get that hatch on the centrecase.

We filled the resin into the gap which is pretty big(good). West system was already gone off. We are going to mix it quite runny to fill the smaller gap, or even grind with using diamond grinder to make the gap bigger to let the glue in.

Do the other job tomorrow, turn over next monday, laminate on tuesday then it will finished I reckon.