Phil C. Bolgers Seabird ´86
09.17.2002
Sometimes the work doesn't want go the right way. The stuff is stubborn, I'm stupid, I've not enough experience... fuck here, shit there. If you make, sometimes you make it wrong. Swear, cry and do the job-it's life!
In the middle of my Seabird bottom you see a stupid mistake. The Epoxy has not hardened there. Probably I´ve forgotten the hardener. Now I plan to cut out the glass at the affected location and soak away the not hardened epoxy with sawdust and grind the plywood another time.
Then I will repair - oh, I love repairing new things - with a new layer of glass. Must I overlap the glass to the other glass parts?
-I have it done this way, without overlapping the glas. I turned the bottem, and glassed the other side. So, my bottom is glassed both sides. The more bad side is now inside the cabin.-
When I scarfed the ply sheets for my Deck I have overseen that one pressing clamp was not finaly fixed. The resuld is a desaster. I think I must repair, because 1 1/2 sheets of plywood is to much Money to do it mostly to the waste.
Time pressure is a bad helper.
-I've bended it a little bit open and soaked the damaged parts with epoxy. Next I've added glas-filler to the Epoxy and filled the voids.
