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Strip: hull curling
By:Borre van Doorninck
Date: 6/26/2003, 11:52 am

Help! I have run into a bad problem with my Guillemot. I am at the point where I want to put the deck and hull together. My hull has curled together more than an inch between the gunnels. I suspect I did not leave it on the forms long enough between the outside glassing and the inside. I discovered it shortly thereafter, and put it back on the forms. Its been ther for the last 3 weeks, but I still have this problem. I have it spread apart with some sticks between the gunnels, if I were to proceed with taping on the deck and then remove the sticks, I suspect that the deck will not keep everything spread apart properly. The only things I can think of are:
1) Grind out the bottom of the inside coat of glass, stretch it on the forms some more, and then re-glass. (This sounds like a whole bunch of extra fun that I don't want to have).
2) Put a couple of permanent wooden bulkheads in and with the cheek boards use these to help enforsce the shape of the boat.
Does anyone have any other experience with this sort of thing out there?

Borre

Messages In This Thread

Strip: hull curling
Borre van Doorninck -- 6/26/2003, 11:52 am
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Rob Macks -- 6/27/2003, 11:43 am
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Borre van Doorninck -- 6/27/2003, 1:27 pm
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Rob Macks -- 6/27/2003, 3:34 pm
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Dave Sprygada -- 6/27/2003, 7:48 am
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Roy Morford -- 6/27/2003, 10:03 am
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Borre van Doorninck -- 6/27/2003, 1:32 pm
Re: Strip: hull curling *LINK*
srchr/gerald -- 6/26/2003, 5:05 pm
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Brian Ervin -- 6/26/2003, 1:59 pm
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Shawn Baker -- 6/26/2003, 12:12 pm
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Roy Morford -- 6/26/2003, 12:00 pm
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Borre van Doorninck -- 6/26/2003, 12:26 pm
Re: Strip: hull curling *Pic*
Scott -- 6/26/2003, 12:39 pm
Re: Strip: hull curling *NM* *LINK*
Scott -- 6/26/2003, 12:44 pm
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Borre van Doorninck -- 6/26/2003, 1:12 pm
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Roy Morford -- 6/26/2003, 1:36 pm
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Borre van Doorninck -- 6/26/2003, 4:06 pm