Back home

Brought the moulds home today, its nice to be able to walk out in the shop and see all the tools ready to go. My buddy and fellow carbon monkey Wade Cameron drove them over, we also brought his jeep hood tool (that's the other mould in the picture). His tool is a high temp prepreg/infusion tool made from moulding material, I'm so jealous. I'm going to help him pull hoods and he's going to help with the boat. It'll be nice to have someone to help with the build. We've fabricated a lot of sweet tools together down at EBS so I really trust his skill. He's one of the best composite guys I know, and a real stand up guy.
My Aluminum mandrels got shipped out yesterday, so hopefully I can start cooking some prepreg rack tube's next week. Still waiting for things to settle down and for other things to "materialize" before I start the hull lay up. I've been kicking around some idea's for the rack, but the more I think about it, the more I like the rack with tramps idea from a couple months ago, its by far the simplest and cheapest option. Part of me would still really like a tramp-less dual rail wing, we'll see how much tube I get laid up.
There's a lot of uncertainty for me work-wise right now which needs to be resolved before I can make the next big push, so doing a lot of little things till then. It feels like I'm back in the build groove now, so that's a really good thing.