Chesapeake 17 Hybrid Day 7

Sanding! getting ready to glass the hull, I'm doing this during the evening when it'll hopefully be cooler.  Once the hull has dried, tomorrow morning I'll turn the boat over and glass the cockpit area and epoxy the rest of the interior. Then during the afternoon I'll put the second coat of epoxy on the hull and prepare the deck beam for gluing.
Tomorrow will be placing the foot braces onto the sides of the hull and installing the deck beam.

Fiberglass cloth draped over the hull.

I found letting it just drape for awhile helps getting the wrinkles out and smoothes to the hull.

Saturday morning, the first coat of epoxy is on the fiberglass. The smudge looking spots on the side are a mystery? they were not there before putting on the epoxy.

Cockpit area fiberglassed and drying!

The bow is reinforced with another strip of fiberglass in anticipation of that first underwater rock I'll hit.

I reinforced the stern, not really sure
I needed to. :)

I had to make a form the radius of the deck. there are 4 pieces of Okume plywood being glued with epoxy that was thickened with cabosil. This will get fitted and attached to the hull and become a beam for the deck over the cockpit.  Done for the day!