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Strip: :D More Bear Steaks! :D *Pic*
By:James Neely
Date: 1/24/2002, 10:19 am

Well, I ate the whole damn bear this time. Both inside seams are glassed, and they look reall purdy if I do say so myself!
Hot gluing in the tape is a wonderfully easy way to do it. I knew the tape wouldnt fall, so I left a couple of hours for the first side to thicken up, flipped the boat over and did the other side. Then, reasoning that if anything was to fall out of place, it would be the half of the tape on the deck, (it's not hot glued and gravity would be pulling on it), I left the boat upside down to cure overnight. I turned off the kero heater and left it under the boat to help keep the temps up inside the hull before I went to bed. The garage was about 38deg this AM and the seams are as cured as much as they will in 12 hours. Soooo I guess it's on to the outside seams today.

I have theory about why my parts lined up as well as they did:

1. My basement is quite deep, and the temp/humidity is very stable down there.

2. I took a loooong time to build the boat. It sat with the hull 1/2 stripped for a year. All the strips were stored with the project.

3. I glassed inside and outside of both the hull and deck within about a week.

4. I'm a lucky SOB. :)

So, I guess it's a boat now! ....sorta

Here's how it looked when I pulled the wrapping off...too soon!
For those of you who realize that if I leave the boat like this it might slowly pull open 'cause the epoxy isn't fully cured, yup, I remembered in time and put some fibre tape on here and there to nail it down..whew! The bear almost bit me back! LOL

Messages In This Thread

Strip: :D More Bear Steaks! :D *Pic*
James Neely -- 1/24/2002, 10:19 am
Re: Strip: :D More Bear Steaks! :D
jim kozel -- 1/25/2002, 9:07 am
Re: Strip: :D More Bear Steaks! :D
James Neely -- 1/25/2002, 11:40 am
Re: Strip: :D More Bear Steaks! :D
Rob Macks -- 1/24/2002, 12:36 pm