Team Work

So who says that boatbuilding is a solitary craft? Fellow naval architects Matt and J had to come investigate our progress Thursday night. With 6 trained hands Susan and Chelsea supervised.

The next step to freeze the shape of the hull and prepare a surface for the fiberglass tape. This is done with fillets. A fillet is epoxy thickened with wood flour to a peanut butter consistency. This mixture is squeezed along the seems between the panels and the n spread smooth.

Once the fillets are down the next step is to apply fiberglass tape over the fillet. Below is J wetting down the tape with epoxy.

Then here is Matt and Luke carefully laying down the fiberglass tape.