Journal
Fairing Keel and Motor Well Joints: This has been the coldest recorded winter in Florida history and I haven't been motivated to get out in the shop. It's warm now and I'm back on the project.
I've added body filler to the keel joint and this is a picture of me fairing the last few feet of the keel joint. Fairing of the entire boat is now 98% complete.
After fairing the keel, the only thing left to do was to fair the engine well and a little touching up. The next major step will be to glass the hull.
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To fair the small joints in the engine well with body filler, I first needed to make a curved spreader. For this I used the cap on WD40 can to approximate the curve of the joint. |
Next, I transferred the shape of the cap to a straight spreader with a Sharpie marker. |
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Cutting out the spreader to be used to shape the joint |
Using the new spreader to smooth the body filler into the joint. |
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The small sanding board that I used to sand the joint. |
The joint being sanded. |
The finished sanded joint in the engine well.
This week I took my teak lumber to have it re-sawed. I hope to visit the shop where the work is being done and document the process.
