A mini-journey: Tiny (part V)

Summer is slowly kreeping this way and it’s time to pick up the tiny-build-activities. Last year finished off with fiberglassing the hull inner sides. During the winter there were times when I actually manage to even forget that there ws this build-project ongoing. Only a couple of friends now and then asking “How’s the boat going?” brought her back to my conciousness.

Last week got around to to sanding the whole hull, both outside and inside. Doing it by handsanding only 100 grit -> 120 -> 150 -> 180. Not using a sanding- machine in order to avoid skid marks and sanding too much at whatever places.

One of the resons for doing the sanding was to fiberglass the inside bottom and transom. The bottom is pretty straight shaped, it will only require some surgical precision cuts at the frame locations into the fiberglass. Those I’ll manage during applying the epoxy. The transom shape is a bit more trickier therefore I decided to make up a template pattern again (like for the hull insides in my last writeup )

The transom fiberglass applied very nicely. There was more huffing and puffing and an occasional swearword for the bottom. And the main reason for this was the dust and plant pieces that fly around in the air. And the occasional fly or mosquito who thinks a just epoxied surface is a nice place to land.