Wing Caps Part III

Undid the straps and used my handy backsaw to trim the leading edges of the capping. I followed that up with the sanding block and 80 grit sandpaper. Looks good! I will come back later with finer sand paper on both the leading edge of the wing and caps prior to applying the laminating epoxy.

Boat is now back up on the roof and Cathy's car is back in the Garage.

Hopefully I will be working on it again in the next 6 weeks or so! Tomorrow I get my knee worked on - Hopefully all goes well!

Wing Caps Reloaded!

This evening when I got home I sanded the aft end of the caps that I epoxied yesterday nice and flush and epoxied on the wing caps.

Cathy was nice enough to lend a hand while I got the clamps installed, lined up etc.

I'm thinking this is going to be it for the next 4 - 6 weeks. I'm having knee surgery this Monday which will pretty much stop this project for a while.

I'm slightly bummed, but on the other hand Cathy get's her parking spot back!

Wing Caps

Tonight I started working on the wing caps. I made the cuts, and glued the back end pieces on first.

Tomorrow I will sand them flush and install the balance of the cap. I have tentatively placed the straps on the boat to hold the caps in place as they dry. I though I had some cabinet clamps that where long enough, but they ended up being about 2 feet to short!

I'm pretty certain that I'll need my wife's help on this tomorrow!

More Wings!

I added the fillet between the wing and the hull and fiberglassed the seam. I spent some time getting the fillets to be nice and uniform since the filleting material is tough to sand. The top rounded edge of the plastic squeegee worked out perfectly for this!

Filleted and ready for fiberglass

I went ahead and and taped the seam up for some extra strength in this area (Plus I had some extra 2" fiberglass tape left over!

Taped up!

Daggerboard Revisited

I finally got the daggerboard back out and started attacking the trailing edge. Pretty much the same program as the rudders but double the size and double the effort!

I finally figured out that I was better off using the hand plane to get it as close as possible versus getting it in the ballpark and finishing it up with the belt sander. I also have started to be a lot more confident with the belt sander and not being afraid to use it and sand off too much. Of course you always learn these lessons at the end of the project. Would have been handy to know up front! I guess it will come in handy when shaping the rudders / keel on the next boat.

I took a picture of the rudder and daggerboard together for a perspective!

Next step will be to do some fine sanding and fiberglass these up. I'll get to that later on!

Wings continued

In the last few days I went ahead and gave the inside of the wing area, and the inside lower wing skin two coats of laminating epoxy.

I also spent some time fitting the lower wings to make sure everything would line up nicely once I epoxied everything in place.

This morning I got up and epoxied both of the lower wing skins on the boat. Once they fully set up I'll go ahead and add the fillets to connect the inboard edge to the hull. I intend to make a little spatula from scrap wood in the shape of the fillet to avoid a bunch of excessive sanding and to come up with a nice regular shape.

While all this stuff sets up I'll pull the daggerboard out and start working on the trailing edge!

Its Got Wings!

This afternoon I came home early to vote, which left me plenty of time to get the starboard wing sorted out. Of course after doing the port side wing ahead of time, it took literally took half the time to get it all fitted trimmed and ready to go. As you can see I went ahead and glued everything up at once and I forgoed the two part process that I did previously.  I also added a couple of extra clamps that I had purchased to the leading edge.

Starboard Side all Clamped Up

It's Got Wings!

Tomorrow I'll get the whole thing filleted in place and start working on applying the two coats of epoxy to the inner parts of the wings, and the inside part of the bottom wing skins.

Looks like I will meet my goal of having the wings done by the end of next week. On Nov 15th I have knee surgery which will stop this project in it's tracks for 6 weeks! Therefore, I am trying to get the hull to a point where I can hang it back up on the roof so my wife can park her car while I am not working on it.

Port side wing

Yesterday I attached the port side wing edge frame and let it set up overnight. I had to do some minor trimming to the wing beams so that everything would line up properly. Prior to epoxying the leading edge I went ahead and fitted the lower wing panel to make sure everything was kosher.

This afternoon, after work, I took the clamps off and attached the wing leading edge. I did not have any clamps that where deep enough so grip the back end of the leading edge so I clamped it to the hull. I later noticed that this did not work the best since it caused the leading edge to slip a bit. It wont be the end of the world, but I did stop by Home Depot and bought some deeper clamps for when I do the starboard side. I also made a piece for the back end of the wing to account for the gap created between the wing deck and the 45 degree beam coming out of the stern transom.

Tomorrow I will go ahead and fillet the seam between the hull and the wing deck and start working on the starboard wing.