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There's not much to report in several part-time days but that the fore deck is fired togther and glassed together with small strips of 6 of 2-inch tape, that the hatches and spacers are cut and ready to glass with CF. The hull had the Chris O method of a skeg attachment strip put in: a 48 inch skeg attachment strip (ply strip with s/s t-nuts fitted and glassed in). Thanks Chris for the excellent method, it worked!
Of note though is that tonight we glassed the inside hull with BFG 5.7 oz 2 by 2 weave CF. We figure approximately 3.5 yards of CF (total of 20 oz) was laid using 17 oz of Polycon 700 resin with the Polycon 22 hardener. Wet out is always tricky and needs a light to see that everything is wet, but the epoxy went on easy and didn't float the CF. I took off about 3-4 oz of excess epoxy so we're figuring a total weight of CF and epoxy of around 2 pounds. The next step is a couple "ribs" and a longitudinal CF inside keel, and a "floor" layer bewteen the planned bulkheads.
Tomorrow we'll finsish assembling the deck and lay CF. The hull outside is planned to be 6 oz glass with a second payer between the chines. The top deck will be 3.4 oz satin. The planned kayak weight will be 35 pounds...including foot pump.