More Recent Progress on Mist

Eye Spy! This photo shows progress on the rudder blank, companion-way, keel trunk, hatch panel, and fairing the deck.

The rudder will be of the cassette variety. The lower third is tapered. Overall length is 60". I will be laying up the cloth and vacuum bagging it soon. Then I'll be fabricating the cassette.


You may have notice that my two young daughters haven't been in the blog's photos recently. They don't like the dust and have been involved in their own activities. At least they have been leaving notes here and there for me to find.

Mist's Bottom and Sides are Fair

I've been spending a lot of time sanding and I am really happy with how smooth the bottom and sides of the hull have turnout. 

 

I rolled and tipped three coats of epoxy with graphite power additive.  I really like the black too!  I figured the color will give me a good indication of how smooth/straight the hull is and hide the pencil markings on the final layer of fairing compound. A majority of this epoxy will be sanded off at a later date when I final prep for primer and paint.  Now it's time to layout deck hardware and fair the top surfaces.  This should go faster than the time it took me to fair the bottom. I can hope!

I'm Back to Work on Mist

Fairing the hull sides of Mist has begun.

I've had quite a delay in finishing the hull. I had major abdomen surgery a few months ago and am surprised at how much my stomach muscles hurt while sanding the fairing compound. This job may take even longer and for certain I'll be much stronger when I do get to the priming stage. BTY, just prior to smearing fairing compound on the both sides of the hull the boat's weight was 320 pounds.

Hump on the bottom

 Upon looking over the boat bottom I noticed a hump between Frame 89 and 110.  It was noticeably unacceptable when a batten was placed across the top of it.

 The cause of the hump is my failure to pull the center-slot in the bottom panel all the way together way back when I stitched the hull together. Above is a photo of the slot taken from the inside of the boat.

For the fix I cut the joint from Frame 89 to 110 and pulled the bottom down
(the boat is inverted right now) with a few windlass.  See photo below.

 The hump has been pulled down to create a fair line along the bottom.

After the glue cured, the hull is a lot more fair.

Bottoms-up!

Fabrication of the cradle. It's placed right above Frame 89. 

The aft support is right above Frame 169.

 Mist is set aside.

Assembly of the cradle.

All Chiefs and no Indians.

 Three guys on one the stern and me on the bow??

Not the easiest way to carry it.

Turning Mist around and pulling her back into the garage.

Mist's Deck is Glassed

We're trimming the glass (9 oz S-glass) to fit.

Glass and peel-ply cut to shape.

Spreading the glue. Working the glue into the cloth/underneath foam and removing any air-bubbles. I practiced this many times on samples to assure full penetration of glue.  The entire deck, cabin top, and cockpit floor required a gallon and half of resin. Some of the glue will be removed when I remove the peel-ply.  The boat currently weighs 315 pound.

This next step is to build a jig to support the boat while it is upside-down.  I'm leaving the peel-ply on the deck until I'm finished fairing and priming the hull sides and bottom.

Hull Weight & Cabin Top

Mist weighs between 285 and 290 pounds without the cabin top installed.  I suppose I'm on track for coming in under class weight, time will tell!

My Daughter and I are installing the cabin top. White cedar strips 

on the top and foam for the sides.

Cabin top is installed. After a few evenings of filleting and fairing I should be 

putting fiberglass on the entire deck.