For anyone who's built their own boat....

In the immortal words of Tim The Tool Man Taylor: "More Power"

My old air compressor just couldn't cut the mustard so I upgraded.

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I have a whole bunch of air tools including sanders but could never use them with the old compressor.

Here's the results of 6 hrs of sanding with an 5" RO electric.

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Ordered more fiberglass and should be ready to lay that down next week.

Productivity should go up from now on!
 
Update: Got another layer of glass on the keel yesterday. Had a kid from next door helping. He jumped right in! 8) It was over 80 degs in the shed so we had to work quickly. I can see how a third set of hands would have been a great help. Two rolling and one mixing.

Will be prepping the bottom for glass this week so more sanding ahead. Small steps but hopefully they're in the right direction.
 
2 hrs sanding with the 6" pneumatic RO vs 6 hrs with the 5" electric RO. Hmmmm? Used up about the same number of discs.

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The operation was a success but the patient died! :lol:

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The larger air compressor and RO sanders were a good investment. I've got a couple hours sanding on the other side then I'll be laying down the glass for the bottom. I'd like to be able to work wet on wet but it's just not possible doing it myself even with a helper. I can live with it.

It's about 80 degs in the shed now. Time for a siesta then back at it.
 
See if you can borrow a sander from an Auto shop. It's about two feet long, and straight. Get's a lot done in a short, but beware of any aggressive tool like that.
 
How about venting your shed with an exaust fan blowing out at the top to keep the temp. reasonable? With summer coming it is only going to get HOTTER!
 
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Originally posted by KnottyBuoyz

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It's about 80 degs in the shed now. Time for a siesta then back at it.
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adru, look at this pic and you can see the fan up near the top of the shed......
 
Oops... Didn't see it. If it's already reaching 80 though you may need 2 fans, do you have another on the other end of the shed? I see you are from California, nowhere near the recent fires I hope. What are the summer temps like where your from?
 
California? No, far from it. We're in a small place in Eastern Ontario, Canada called Iroquois, about an hour west of Montreal, an hour south of Ottawa and an hour east of Kingston along the St. Lawrence River.

I have a large pedestal fan in the doorway that pulls a lot of air through the shed. It still gets warm in there. The blue plastic acts like a super greenhouse I guess. Just have to learn to work around the higher temps. If you read back through the thread you'll see it's a bit of a struggle just to keep the shed together. I don't like to put more holes in it than necessary.
 
Some carbon fiber (Saertex) added to the keel and area where the rudder port will be. I had the material and nothing planned for it so I thought these areas could benefit from a little extra reinforcement.

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Before the rains came I rolled out one panel of glass for the bottom. The table is 16' long to give you some perspective. This panel is over 32' long, half of it is still rolled up at the far end of the table. I have to transfer the dimensions from this panel to a new roll of glass for the other side.

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This fiberglass is 33 oz quadaxial. About 65 lbs to this roll alone. It'll soak up a lot of epoxy but replaces two separate layers specified by the designer. We've worked with it before and it's pretty easy to work with as long as the panels are relatively flat. We'll have gravity on our side this time.
 
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Originally posted by KnottyBuoyz

Hey Thud

I've got the hand powered longboard from Durablock.
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Hey Rick: I was actually looking for one of those to finish my truck. How long is it?. U still using it?. U want to sell/rent it out for a couple of days?..
 
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Originally posted by adru

I see you are from California, nowhere near the recent fires I hope. What are the summer temps like where your from?
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Flutterby here in sunny California. My climate is nothing like Knotty Buoys!!!! Sorry I confused you; I definitely am NOT building a boat; not even a toy boat!
 
Hey Wayne

You can use it if you like. It's 30" long but I have some shorter. You'll have to find the sandpaper for it though. All I have is really course stuff right now.

Stop by anytime.

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Originally posted by KnottyBuoyz

Hey Thud

I've got the hand powered longboard from Durablock.
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Hey Rick: I was actually looking for one of those to finish my truck. How long is it?. U still using it?. U want to sell/rent it out for a couple of days?..

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Fiberglass as far as the eye can see!

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Approx. 10 yds of 33 oz Quadaxial fabric. Should suck up about 3 gallons of epoxy!
 
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any thoughts to putting a shoe on that keel?

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There's a layer of quadaxial carbon fiber that covers most of the bow and keel. I have thought about adding a keel shoe but not sure exactly which material to use. One that was built in Australia a few years ago used stainless steel but they have reefs & oyster beds to deal with.

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I probably shouldn't have attempted to do this by myself but I did.

11 yds of 33 oz fabric is a bugger to wet out. It took almost 11 hours, 4 1/2 gallons of epoxy, 12 pairs of latex gloves, 2 roller sleeves plus the other expendables. I apologize for the crappy cell phone pic.

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I know I was going to have a problem with bridging with this heavy material so I faired out some of obvious spots. Missed a few so I'll have a few voids to deal with. I'll have some prep work to do on the other side before I start that. Mostly runs and some epoxy spills. Not looking forward to it but there's more room to work on that side of the boat so it should be easier.
 
As a kid in Puget Sound area I got my hands on a lottsa 'old wrecks' or direlects.
Most of thse old wooden boats had a keel shoe. That Keel Shoe was normally a long piece of 'half round' steel about an inch wide by half inch thick.
Nothing wrong with that. But the Bolts were often the 'wrong stuff' too few, and too far between.
So many I took off were bent to the side, torn off in front or back and the bolts were barely keeping that shoe in place.
You sometimes cannot help going to the beach.
That's gonna need some repair, so maybe a keel shoe is a wast of time and money up front if your still gonna have to make some serious repairs.
If you did use a shoe under all that Fiberglass etc, make that shoe widen enough to prevent damage to the Glass.
In those early years of mine, which were the late years of wood boats I fixed up some real interesting atrocities.
 
This is the SS shoe they put on the TW28 in Australia. It was insisted up by the inspector if I remember correctly.

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I'd need a piece of SS about 20' long and 16" wide to fit my keel. Wonder how much that'll cost? Hmmmm?
 
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