Here is the completed hull with the cloth and first coat of epoxy. The whole process went much easier than I anticipated. In fact I have been putting it off because of my insecurity in doing it. Thanks to my son Ben and Joe from Redfish for you continued advise. Now for the 2nd coat to fill in the weave and then a final 3rd coat. I'll also add some extra cloth at the bow and stern stems. As you can see the cloth laid down nicely at the bow so I didn't even have to cut it.
At the stern we needed to cut the cloth. I'll trim it later. The extra cloth at the sheer strip helps catch the drips. I wet it out with a brush and then used a squeege to pull all the air and extra epoxy out.
Here's my friend Lou who helped me by mixing epoxy so I could keep wetting it out. It was great to have an extra set of hands. Thanks Lou.
We covered up and used eye protection to make sure the epoxy didn't get on us. The MAS epoxy hardly has any odor so we just opened the basement windows and were fine. Here I'm wetting it out with the brush.
Here is the dry cloth draped over the hull. After the final sanding vacumed the entire basement and area well to try to get rid of all the dust. Then I did a final tack cloth over the hull.
Here is the completed hull with the cloth and first coat of epoxy. The whole process went much easier than I anticipated. In fact I have been putting it off because of my insecurity in doing it. Thanks to my son Ben and Joe from Redfish for you continued advise. Now for the 2nd coat to fill in the weave and then a final 3rd coat. I'll also add some extra cloth at the bow and stern stems. As you can see the cloth laid down nicely at the bow so I didn't even have to cut it.
At the stern we needed to cut the cloth. I'll trim it later. The extra cloth at the sheer strip helps catch the drips. I wet it out with a brush and then used a squeege to pull all the air and extra epoxy out.
Here's my friend Lou who helped me by mixing epoxy so I could keep wetting it out. It was great to have an extra set of hands. Thanks Lou.
We covered up and used eye protection to make sure the epoxy didn't get on us. The MAS epoxy hardly has any odor so we just opened the basement windows and were fine. Here I'm wetting it out with the brush.
Here is the dry cloth draped over the hull. After the final sanding vacumed the entire basement and area well to try to get rid of all the dust. Then I did a final tack cloth over the hull.
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