The longboard sanding of Kevin Agee's boat is done. The hull is as near to fair as it needs to be at this stage. Still to come is the glassing, followed by sprayed fairing compound and final fairing.
I completed the shaping of the stem capping. This involved planing and sanding it flush with the hull skin then rounding off the tip to a radius suitable for the fibreglass cloth to wrap around. Also fairing it smoothly into the front end of the keel runner.
The hull is looking very nice, with fair curves to the profile and chine edges. Any bumps and dips in those edges will catch the eye, so it is worthwhile to take care with smoothing them out before any glassing is done.
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| Stem capping shaped flush with the hull skin and rounded off to a neat radius. |
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| Fair curves |
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| Fairing of stem capping into keel runner completed. |
The other work going on is building the bracket that will support the outboard engine/s. Previous posts have shown how the fore/aft gussets pass through the transom and bond onto the girders inside the hull. Now the laminated plywood engine board has been built and glued onto those gussets. Before doing this the gussets were checked for alignment relative to each other and the transom, with some minor trimming to true them up.
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| Completed engine board. This is the aft face. The stepped bottom edge matches the angle on the boat and will be planed smooth before the bottom skin is glued on. |
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| Front face of the engine board, slotted for the gussets that will connect it to the transom. |
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| Engine board glued onto the gussets. |
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| Test-fitting the bottom plywood onto the engine bracket. |
Glassing the hull will be starting soon and in a few weeks the hull will be ready to be turned over. Follow progress in future posts.
This design has not been completed yet, so is not on our website. I hope to have it available in a few months.
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