1973 196 rebuild question

[Duffy1470]

Couldn't sleep so laminated at 3:30 am. We are a weird species.

[Duffy1470]

When I get home from work, will glass this.

[Duffy1470]

The layup schedule on the inboard stringers was 2 staggered layers of 6 inch 1708.  One is 4 inches on the stringers and 2 inches on the hull and the other is the opposite. That was an accident was supposed to be 9 and 6. Oh well. Covered those with a 12 inch strip. 

On the outboard side did 6, 12 , and 25 inches.  Overkill but I'm doing it anyway. Have a great day all.

[Ulysses485]

This stuff is hard work. The only way to do it is in hundreds if not thousands of short steps. You’re getting it for sure Duffy!! Good stuff! I’ve have my share of late evening glass layups. It’s the coolest time of the day (especially in summer) and makes for more even surface temperatures so I actually prefer it (primarily because I don’t have a shop though…haha). Keep up the good work and before you know it you’ll have a working boat.

[Duffy1470]

Port side done



On to next side

[RickK]

Looking good 

[Duffy1470]

I'm getting a little better at this.  I am putting a 1/2 inch vent hole every 20 inches or so where glass transitions from one plane to another. It really helps to have somewhere to push bubbles. I'm sure it's frowned upon by purists but it is so much easier and makes the lamination so much cleaner and quicker.  Stringers are super solid and not even finished glossing so pretty stoked.

Rick, I assume you used your stringer mold to make the cross piece in your build?  Perhaps modified it a little?

[Duffy1470]

Stbd side done. On to cross stringer.

[RickK]

I made a separate mold for the bulkheads - it has one 90 degree side and one angled side. I placed the bulkheads fore and aft of the fuel tank with the 90 degree side inward toward the fuel tank. You can see the difference in this pic


Your stringers are not very angled so you can probably use the mold you have.

[Duffy1470]

Cross stringer. We'll see how it comes out.  3 layers 1708 with 2 extensions sandwiched between 1708 layers meant to  extend to keel on each side. See pics. Pretty sure that doesn't make sense.

[RickK]

Makes sense to me. You'll want a way for any water to flow under the tank and out to the rear bilge.
This is what I did

[Duffy1470]

I looked at your build and was actually copying it and another one that used a bigger piece of pvc to bridge the keel.  Great info. Thanks. Will probably try to pop it out this morning..

[Duffy1470]

Yes, the tube is two coffee cans taped together for the mold. It will be the drain tube for the cross member.



Cross member

[Duffy1470]

I will cut the tube in half.

[Duffy1470]