Week 41: What? More Sanding?

Yes, even more sanding. Another 2 hours of sanding.

View over the transom makes the boat look short fat stubby

I finished with the 100 grit on the inside. I finished with the 100 grit on everything except the transom on the outside.

View over the bow makes the boat look long and skinny

I’ve decided to leave the bottom, both inside and outside, at 100 grit. I’ll further do the sides, again both inside and outside, with 150 grit. And I’ll finish off the wales, breast hook, and quarter knees with 220, since those’ll all be surfaces that I will grab, or hypothetical passengers will grab, from time to time.

Whoops, unfilled screw holes

Oh, I also discovered, in the course of sanding the inside bottom, a row of screw holes that I’d missed with the wood filler. So I slapped on some DAP on those before flipping the boat over and starting on the outside hull.

Shop vac filter gets filled with sanding dust

I finally started sanding the glassed chines on the outside. I’d been worrying over doing that for weeks and weeks. The 100 grit on the pad sander didn’t seem to cut through it as drastically as I had been worrying that it would do. So I was able to comfortably cut down the grid pattern of the tape, while holding the sander parallel to either the side or the bottom, without cutting through the rounded corner that seals the seam which is the reason for glassing the chines in the first place. It’ll look a bit rough, in that it’ll be obvious that the chines are glassed even after it’s painted, but it’s a good compromise, I think.

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