infude the deck or deck the halls?

Just a short post before Christmas After the hull was pulled from the mold and sent off to the fitting line, they started in on the deck. First up was spraying the mold with gelcoat. The next photo shows the foam installed. You can also see the outer layer of fiberglass around the edges. Once […]

infusing The hull & Is white the best spinnaker color?

So today I picked the spinnaker color and then received a bunch of build photos. First up is the hull being infused. In traditional vacuum bagging, the glass is wetted out with resin and then vacuum bag draws out the excess resin by squeezing it out. If you don’t get all the excess out you […]

sanity test starts going in the mold

The first photo shows the hull with the gelcoat and the first layer of fiber installed. They install a clear not gelcoat on the bottom so they can do post infusion quality control checks. The green you see is the mold. The visible bumps in the hull create a recess to allow any though hull […]