1 March 2015
Another workday at 456 Boatworks South. We started around 9am after some waffles and coffee. Today’s goal was to put together the sawhorses to accommodate the strongback. We also took the forms and fixed them a bit more solidly to the strongback in order to check on her lines. String, stretched over the forms, helped highlight her shape. Honestly, she looked pretty good! We’ll need to sand the edges of the forms, and even out some rough spots that look slightly off-kilter. Around lunchtime we headed to Home Depot to look at foam sheets which will be used as the core, between resin-hardened fiberglass sheets. The jury is still out on exactly how we’ll apply the foam. Method one involves cutting long, thin strips and applying them similar to how you’d apply cedar strips on a cedar strip canoe. The other method would involve trying to heat the full 4’x8′ foam sheet to the extent that it conforms to the template forms.