Monday, November 23, 2009

Sheathing

Today we sheathed the hull using fiberglass and epoxy. "Sheathing is the term used to describe a ‘heavy duty’ form of coating and is the process of bonding a woven glass fiber fabric onto the wood surface, using a thermoset laminating resin." Read more at the link The photos at the left document the work done today. We are grateful to Russ from Russell Yachts in Morehead City for sharing his time and expertise with us today. We hope to turn over the boat next week. Michael was able to construct supports for holding up the boat when it is turned over.

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