This blog is to document the process of building a small, inexpensive high performance sail boat with my (ten) eleven year old son. I want to give him the opportunity to fall in love with sailing and have the chance to be part of a project designed to help make sailing accessible to more people.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Epoxy will show your faults
Thought I was making progress with the fairing and sanding of the outside of the hull with Thomas. Decided to clean off the dust and give it a coat of epoxy for finish sanding before painting the outside of the boat. Rolled on the clear epoxy and every fault, dip, hump, scratch, dog hair and uneven surface came to light making the boat look like it had never been sanded.
Our sanding was just at the point of going too far - breaking through the previous epoxy layer into the bare plywood in a couple spots. I guess this means another fairing compound pass now that I can see all the trouble spots that had been hidden by dust.
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