Work Day 13

Today I started to lay in more cabin floor supports. The big issue was dealing with the forward supports.  Trying to understand how they would fit together with the bilge, as well as actually making them the correct height so the bilge and the floor are at the same level.  So I began by cutting down the front bulkhead and the other support to the correct size. Then I laid up the rear support with epoxy so it could set in.  before laying up the forward support I need to do two things.  Shave down the bilge so the cut I made on the front is even.  Second is to install the forward cabin top again.  After placing the forward cabin top, it became clear it was going to sit on top of the bulkhead for support. So had to keep that in mind while placing it.

rear support and forward bulkhead

You can see the gap at the bottom because of the uneven cut

Preparing the forward cabin floor by attaching mast support piece.  

Basically laid up epoxy and fiberglass CSM to make sure this was attached. Then will just have to drop it in the pre made space to lay it up evenly.

Took a preview stab at stripping the keel to see what it was going to be like. I sprayed some compressed stripper on the keel and then went at it three coats worth with a stripper knife.  As you can see not very easy. This was 20 mins worth of work....So it will take a lot. But there is big value to stripping then sanding, as best I can tell, the green paint gunks up the sanding discs way faster then anything. The green paint is what I can get off pretty easily as well.

So next work day, dropping in the forward cabin floor.  And beginning to sand!