A slow weekend due to family commitments. however we managed to get all the exterior joins filled.
These fillets are a two stage process, fill, then sand to shape. This process is necessary as there is too much material involved in each fillet and in our conditions, the first part “gels” well before the rest can be completed, so we could never do a ‘wet on wet” layup.
Zip lock bag used to “pipe” the fillet mixture.
Loading piping bag with fillet mixture.
Removing air bubbles from the piping bag, ensuring that one air bubble is left at the corner tip. This avoids oozing when tip is cut.
This corner of piping bag can be cut to suit the variations of each join, by altering the size or angle.
Judy is “piping” the fillet and I am following to adjust any small errors which were minimal even when the bag split open.
The piped fillet in place between the keel and the lower bilge panel.
Piping the fillet 1. The important bit here is we need to get the material down to the bottom of the V shaped space.
Piping the fillet 2. Both photos show the piping bag technique works well.
All the fillets in place port side port hull.
All the fillets in place, starboard side port hull. The piping bag technique is a more effective method of getting the fillets into these spaces however it still took both of us 5 hours to complete six full length joins.
The starboard hull took me over 3 weeks, an hour here and there, using the “small mixture, then push it in with the blade and shape then mix some more etc technique”
Now I have to get out the 3M flexible long board during the week and sand to shape.
