The Slows

I have been busy with some other projects and have only spent about 20 hours on the boat the last couple of weeks.  Tasks include more layers of uni carbon protrulsion and fairing corners of the pultrusion layers into the beam corners. The stacks of pultrusion create gaps that have to be faired before layers of bi-directional cloth can be laid over the top and bottom of the aka beams. You get glue squeeze out under the clamps and it makes for inconsistent edges.  I'm doing some test layups to see if I can find a more uniform way of doing these.  Pictures later...

I have calculated there are about 20 more carbon layups for the beams.  About 16 of these require hand clamping every six inches.

There is more information on the Cheers posters at PT Watercraft.

Task time: 20 hours

Total project time: 232 hours

Cheers in the Shop

Russell brought  a nice bit of inspiration back from a recent trip.  This is a poster of Dick Newick's Cheers.  It looks like Tom Follett taking a sun site from the cabin.  Apparently some of these posters will be available for proa enthusiasts soon.

Painting by Bruce A. Alderson, ASMA

The second side of the aka went on today.

Task time: 2 hours

Total project time: 160 hours