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Busy weekend in the shop, core bonding time. I went with a hybrid core deal. I used M80 in the stern and mast base areas because that's where the torsional and compressive loads are the greatest. I also bonded in some fg woven roving blocks under where the wingbars will mount. Same properties as plywood at half the weight and no rot.




I didn't thermoform the foam before I bagged it, ended up using the heatgun over the bag to get it to seat right.




Here's what it looked like before outer skin. Not bad, that hybrid material looks trippy. You can see some of my hull foam thermoforming in the background. Not sure exactly how I'm going to do that one yet.




3k Carbon +/-45



3oz hybrid, and peal-ply.



Under vac for the night, I'll see how it turns out after work tomorrow.

More sticky icky

102f in the garage, so it seemed like a good day to lay up a part. The first layer for the deck is a lightweight ballistic hybrid. That should help with impacts from knees and keep the errant trap hook at bay.



Then a skin of 3k carbon and 3k reinforcements.



And the bag. Hope to get the nomex and M80 closeouts bonded on sometime this week.

what up?

Finally finished the mould drawings for the rudder foil, going to spend the rest of today banging out the main foil drawings.




Here is the foredeck. Finally nailed the core layup. I'm going to wait to add the outer skin until I can test fit it to the hull and sand the edge of the foam to match. And my hush hush deck hybrid came through, so I'm hoping to lay up at least one skin of the crewdeck this weekend.