hey mate, i am a fibreglass boat builder, just a little tip to save a bit of time in lamination, you do not need to roll out every layer individually, you can wet out multiple layers then roll them all at once. best done when rolled with a bristle roller first which will make sure that the resin is rolled through all the fibres, then roll with a check roller to remove the excess resin. hope this helps in the future!!
Hi James, thanks for the handy tip. I’ve actually started doing that process the more I do the more I learn these little things. Appreciate your help and thanks for watching.
Interesting how you talk about turning points mentally, esp when you are working on your own and have jobs / kids to deal with. I feel for you as I'm basically doing the same thing. These little milestones really give that end result a bit more clarity. You'll get there soon mate. The result will be well worth it.
Hey mate, love the videos. Going to start rebuilding my 565l. I was just wondering with the stringers once the old stringers did you flaten out the hull completely with glass and put the new stringers on top or did you have them sitting in the Groove? Also we're the bottom of stringers cut on the angle or did you have the flat in there ? If that makes any sense.
Hey mate, glad you’re enjoying the videos. The stringers on the 600r followed the strakes so they were flat. I opted to fill the strakes to make glassing the inside of the hull easier. I then cut my stringers in an angle to suit the shape of the hull and bedded them in with a Cabosil and resin mixture. Hope that helps 👍
As these sections won’t be visible and it’s vinyl ester resin, I won’t be flowcoating. I will be foam filling the voids and Everywhere that will be visible, I will finish with flowcoat. Sanding and fairing will not be necessary for the inside section of the boat.
@@ADVENTURES_ADRIFT Yeah, that's what I mean sorry, above deck in visible areas when you lay some glass under the gunnels on the sides for strength. When I did that I used vinyl ester flow coat over the vinyl ester laminating resin then sanded once cured, faired and then flow coat again which I wet sanded and polished. For below deck I did the same as you, 2 part closed cell foam, vinyl ester laminating resin, then vinyl ester flow coat. The point of my questing was what are using to top the laminating resin as a top coat to cure as you can't just leave the top layer as laminating resin due to it not curing. I got the idea of using flow coat or waxed gel coat to help with sanding from Andy at boat works today.
