3.01.2009

laminating the centerboard stringers

Inside of the twin centerboards of this cat will be the most beautiful lightweight straight grain mahogany stringers that the world will never see. Here, I'm using a vacuum pump to help laminate two sets of four 8 inch wide by 78 inch long boards. These boards will then be shaped and then bonded with 45 x 45 x 0 glass and will become stringers that will then be embedded into two separate foam blanks. These stringers will then be shaped and capped with multiple layers of unidirectional glass and the sections that will swing down into the water will be shaped into symmetrical foils.

The next blue sky will find me shaping them with my power planer like two big honkin surfboards.

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