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MAY 2006 |
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| 09-May-2006: Rearmed the "tent" due the rains. I am in full task of sanding the hull on the outside. The first sanding was made with the grinder (grain 40). With the band sander and grain 60, was made the final finishing. | 09-May-2006: With the band sander is necessary to be careful with the pressure employed because can leave a mark or unstuck the sandpaper. |
09-May-2006: It is already being smooth "like an egg", Cabinho's said. Flor has a good time using it as toboggan! |
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| 15-May-2006: Can be observed that the grinder leaves the surface almost leveled and lightly irregular.The band sander will fix it. | 15-May-2006: Frontal view of primary sanding. In this stage the first "decease" on tools occurs. A cheap grinder. | 15-May-2006: Like the project establish 16 mm thickness for the strips and I use 20 mm, while sanding, I has a favorable margin to correct any imperfection. |
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| 15-May-2006: Here can be appreciated the difference of finish with the band sander. Little by little the irregularities are going disappearing. | 15-May-2006:Detail of completion at prow and how the strips are going touching it. It's necessary to sand a lot! | 15-May-2006: Finally the hull still very smooth and slippery!. We pull out "the child" of inside us and we join with Flor using the hull like a toboggan!. |
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| 16-May-2006: I must take a picture like the "sanding man". My nephew see me and start to crying!. | 20-May-2006: After 11 days worked, now is already finish. | 20-May-2006: My favourite tool!! |
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| 20-May-2006: Taking the lines plan, I was mark and cut the hull aft with the final profile established in project. I can't explain the feeling! | 20-May-2006: Another view of moment. | 20-May-2006: The section 12 said "bye" definitely to the hull. |
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| 20-May-2006: Drill adapted to mix, extremely useful for big quantities of epoxi. | 20-May-2006: Indispensable trio. Those that invented the grinder and the band sander are my idols!! | 20-May-2006: Before fiberglassing, it's necessary to make the cover for steam prow. It's easy because the shape is a simple trapezoid, without curves. |
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| 21-May-2006: Carina, the official mixer. She prepared resin kilo by kilo for not squander epoxi. The "little orange" is the scale to weight the components. | 21-May-2006: Preparing the reinforcements of bidirectional roving (800 gr/m2) for keel area. | 21-May-2006: My father-in-law Oscar early in the morning. |
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| 21-May-2006:Beginning to apply the resin. First we do it like painting. Later, "more skillful", we drop a good quantity over the hull and with plastic spatulas we spread the resin. This way is fastest. | 21-May-2006: My cousin Fernando working hard ... in a Sunday!! | 21-May-2006: To the afternoon my neighbor Alejandro give us a big help. |
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| 21-May-2006: With a cane like axis, we do spin the roll to unroll more easily the unidirectional roving of 460 gr/m2. | 21-May-2006: Here, can be observed the way of lamination forming an 45º angle with the center line. The second layer it's same just inverted (90º angle with the first one), overlapping on center line 10 and 15 cm (1st & 2nd layer). | 21-May-2006: Fernando's work consists in put epoxi where it is necessary and remove all bubbles that appears. |
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| 21-May-2006:Beginning to place the three layers reinforcements on keel area. It's very difficult because all the hull is recently fiberglassed and it's wet. | 21-May-2006: I made the most possible from the stair, but was faster ascend to the hull and be still while the others give to me the fiber and resin. | 21-May-2006: Entire lamination crew posing to the picture. |
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| 21-May-2006:The last centimeters of reinforcements. I stay in this position since one hour ago. I think that I can't stand up again!! | 21-May-2006: We finish!! After 10 hours full working stopping only to lunch. It's incredible that was the "terror" in the beginning of project (epoxi resin) has finished so well. Now I'm sure that I will finish the boat!! | 22-May-2006: At the next day in spite of cold night, the epoxi is very hard. |
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| 22-May-2006:Will give me a lot of sorrow to paint it. The timbers are so pretty!! | 22-May-2006: Detail of prow. Very difficult to turn the fiberglass. With a stapler we maintains it on their place. Was the second tool decease. I forgot to clean it and transformed it in a epoxi block! | 22-May-2006: Another view of prow. |
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| 22-May-2006:View of the borders that were hanging and that I will cut when the epoxi cures completely. | 22-May-2006: The other side. It was enough well to be the first time that we laminated with the feared epoxi. | 22-May-2006: Aft view where can be observed the area with cedar. |
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22-May-2006: Now I can leave it, without worry with the rain. I used: 40 kg epoxi, 6 m2 bidirectional roving 800 gr/m2 and 85 m2 unidirectional roving 460 gr/m2.
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24-May-2006: Detail of unidirectional roving used. |
MAY 2006 |
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