Fairing Keel fitting Centre Board Sanding Hull
It's been 10 days since I last posted and I have been working most days since......and it's difficult to see the progress. Sanding and fairing is a slow process. I had no major issues to fair, other than the tail of the lead keel was veering to starboard slightly, so I made a plastic shuttering and filled with wood flour thickened epoxy. That left a remarkably glass like finish. I took several passes of creating a smooth radius fillet between the hull and keel with fairing epoxy, using a variety of sized tubes to create the radius and the sanding with the same tubes covered in 180 and 240 grit paper. Eventually I got a passable result. Next I went about installing the centreboard. I measured carefully from the plans where to drill the pivot pins hole in the lead. I clamped the trunk cap onto the trunk with a 30mm piece of timber in the slot so that the CB would rest in the truck at the planned level, when it is fully hoisted. I took lines form t...
