Well the Float boat has been started , I'm not rushing it as I have other stuff to do and I'm just slotting this in as I have time , here s progress so far
After I marked out and cut out the panels I had to join the bottom and the side panels using fiberglass tape and epoxy , when it's all finished it will all be quite strong , the plans call for 9mm ply and just taping the seams using 100 mm glass tape but I'm using 4mm marine ply and will eventually cover the whole inside and outside with fiberglass cloth , should still be light but also strong and more abrasion resistant
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Panels are stitched together using small zip ties about every 100mm then a bead of epoxy thickened with wood dust is run into the seam ,
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I've run some epoxy to hold it together and put some glass tape on the edges
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Now when I set the frames up on the jig I spent a lot of time making sure every thing was straight , even , square and dead level , it was a few days before I was able to get back to it because of heavy rain and then heat with about 100% humidity , seems that in that time the jig warped slightly so the frames have moved a couple of Milimetres , wouldn't be noticeable except I made marks for them to line up , will have to move them just slightly , been thinking about making hatches in the front deck and the rear seat but think maybe round water proof plastic hatches will be better for added flotation rather than a top opening hatch
Have turned it over so I can run the inside fillets and give a saturation coat of epoxy , will need to order some glass cloth soon and probably some more epoxy , I have about 2 litres left and it won't be enough , I run all the inside seems yesterday and was surprised how much thickened epoxy it took , will post pictures of that later
David