Seven keel floors ready for cleaning and dressing.
Fibreglass cheaper by the rolls
The last two days since clamping up the seventh floor frame have been spent buying glass cloth for reinforcing the top of the frames and in cutting out and routering the edges of the 100 mm ply doublers. Buying the glass from Nuplex was the easy task and by buying by the roll I have enough for the hull outside and inside. As well I have purchased the unidirectional glass for the keel floor tops and the first layer on the skin under the keel floor area. The more difficult task was buying a route table and finding a suitable router for it. Eventually I adapted an old Ryobi router to the Ozito router table by drilling the Ozito base plate to suit the Ryobi and that has worked fine. The shopping time has eaten into boat building time so this afternoon I moved into production mode. By nightfall I had routered all the ply doublers and ground all the surplus epoxy off seven frames.