Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Glassing in stringers

Yesterday I began glassing in the stringer, four of them which extend from the transom to the bow. They are in two sections and I have been working on the aft ones. First I put all of the stringers and frames in place, then spot welded the stringers to the hull with small epoxy fillets between each frame, removed the frames after the fillets had cured and then could begin taping the stringers in place. To do that I first had to lay a continous fillet of thickend epoxy along the base of each side of the stringer, let that set up and then lay 6" biaxial glass tape the length of the stringer, two each side, staggered two inches. Those babys are solid.