coming along

Still fairing, but I think its looking pretty good. I'm enjoying the artsy aspect of foam shaping. You can really get into the soul of the form.

smack my bottom

Ran home from work Thursday night and bagged the bottom core. Not nearly as much of a chore as doing the sides. Cut to shape, vacuum the dust off, roller some epoxy onto the foam and the surface, squeeze some bog into the corners frosting bag style, put in the panels, cover with peel ply, and slam it.



I woke up early this morning ready to go. Trimmed the sides to match the bottom and started fairing. I love foam dust, I like how it stays put and doesn't get everywhere.........(or not)


After Dinner I went out and filled the gaps and seams, tomorrow I can fair the sides. If I'm feeling ambitious (and blow off mowing the yard) I might throw the outer skin on.



More to come.......

Pumped

I finally had a chance to get my old pump running, it holds full vac, but leaks oil like a no ones business. Anyway, was able to do a run, I just had to add oil every hour so that the pump didn't run dry. That meant staying up all night instead of going to bed. Whatever, sleep is over rated anyway.



0/45 Biax 3k carbon layer with some reinforcements in key load area's.



Then the M80 foam core, finally figured out an easy way to thermoform it, though next time I'll be doing it a little different so that my darts don't open up so much. I was happy to use the 4x2 sheets of foam this time because they were a sample (free) but next time I will defiantly use the big sheets so that I don't have to try to keep so many parts in place while I suck the bag down.


It went pretty well, I found it almost imposable to thermoform the 2x4 sheets in one piece, so I cut 12 inch long slits every 12 inches and formed them one flap at a time.



Overall I'm happy with how it turned out. I learned a lot and found some things I will do different next time. I'll worry about weight savings and under engineering on the next one, as a starter boat this ones going to take a beating.