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Re: Further Adventures of James GB
By:John Monfoe
Date: 6/16/2001, 5:05 am
In Response To: Further Adventures of James GB (James Neely)

: Now comes the big question. Now that it'sopen and ready, would I be asking
: for big problems if I went ahead and glassed the inside of the hull now
: and then reinstalled the forms? Could be one of those serendipitous
: accidents that solves the problem of needing to rush through the deck
: stripping in order to get the insides glassed.
: HMMMM ...Waddya think, Guys? Crazy idea?

My hull also came off my forms. I too was working stapless. I thought about glassing the inside of the haul at that time but give up the idea because I thought the forms might not go back in very well because of the space the glass took up. I ended up putting a screw through the hull shear starter strip at each form. I wish I did that in the beginning. But my outside haul wasn't glassed at that time and working on the inside of a fragile hall was too scary.

John

Messages In This Thread

Further Adventures of James GB
James Neely -- 6/15/2001, 4:41 pm
Re: Further Adventures of James GB
Mitch Isoe -- 6/17/2001, 2:48 pm
Re: Further Adventures of James GB
Jim Martin -- 6/16/2001, 10:15 am
Re: Further Adventures of James GB
John Monfoe -- 6/16/2001, 5:05 am