Another minor update:
The skeg got all redone, nicely finished in fairing compound leveling the
grinding I did to bring it back into a rounded shape (better, actually, than
the original), and we waited for the fairing compound to fully set.
Hmmmm. What's this wet spot??? And, regardless, how is it making it through
epoxy-cloth, epoxy chop/cabosil and epoxy fairing compound? Much
headscratching, didn't help find the answer, no change...
FF to today, with some time away from the boat in between, and after much
rinsing and acetone wiping, decided that the only way to get to the bottom
of this was to grind out that spot.
So, we now have a lovely cone, all the way into the center section of the
skeg (which apparently had the same sort of marble dust/resin slurry which
was poured around the shaped lead billets which went into the keel, from the
look and feel of it, in the center), and no water/whatever-it-was in sight.
WTF???
While we were away from the boat, our remaining fairing compound
disappeared. Nothing else, mind you, just that, including the West System
epoxy and hardener sitting right next to it. We assume (well, I do, Lydia's
not so sure) that because it was in the neighborhood of the trash can, and
there wasn't much left in them, so they didn't weigh very much, like our
epoxy cans did, that either Friday or Saturday, in our absence, they got
picked up for trash. Not much of a loss, other than the nuisance of our no
longer having any left for any smallish jobs we might like to have it for,
such as our new hole we just opened, after we put more fiberglass in it, to
fair it out...
In any event, we'll refill the cone and sand it while it's green, so it
matches the shape of the rest of our finished product. Tomorrow we'll put
on the last of the glass.
When I get the pic of the cone hole up, you'll see that we have a VERY
substantial layup of cloth; the hole is well over an inch deep before
reaching the slurry center (set, of course, into solid). In the meantime,
the latest section of this gallery begins at
http://justpickone.org/skip/gallery/...ents&start=120.
The rudder strengthening is just before that - you can see those by backing
up, clicking the "previous" button on the lower left - and we'll have the
cone segment up in a little while, perhaps not before we've finished the
glass, however (one layer of 1708 with several extra layers of resin to make
it easier to sand without getting into the glass).
Happy Memorial Day, y'all.
L8R
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