: Thought you folks might like to see some more high tech boat building.

: Attached is a picture of the deck of a kayak I layed up yesterday right
: before I infused it with resin this morning. It’s a little hard to see
: what’s going on in this picture but under the vacuum bag is a spiral tube
: that runs along the center of the deck over the peel ply. Two more spiral
: tubes run along the top flange. First you clamped off the center tube and
: applied a vacuum to the tubes along the flange. This sucks all the air out
: of the carbon fiber / core and presses it against the mold surface. I then
: hook the center tube into a bucket of resin. The vacuum sucks the resin
: down the center of the deck where it wicks up the sides to the flange and
: into a port that keeps the resin out of the vacuum pump.

Jack,

Why do you use peel ply in this case (other than under the inlet/outlet tubes)? Is it as flow media or are there secondary bonding steps?

Thanks,
Sam