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 end up with heavy parts.
With Infusion, a bag is placed over the mold and then the resin is drawn into the vacuum bag. Since the glass and foam are compacted by the vacuum, less resin is used. If you set everything up right, you get a light part. Of course you could use per-impregnated carbon fiber, but I’d like to have a few dollars left in my bank account when this is over.
After the hull has set up and the bag and tubes are removed, the bulkheads start to get installed.
So the spin color turned out to be an easy decision. The Clemson crowd wanted Orange but then Sam chimed in and said that he was trimming it he would want natural(white) or grey. I checked out the Figaro and Class 40 boats, and most of theirs were natural. So since the boat will be kept in Charleston and Sam will be trimming al ot of the time, it will be natural.
Just might have to see if we can get an orange tiger paw printed on it.