Conchfish 16

You’ll be slimin her in no time dude!

I hope so!!!

I am on 14 of 18 gallons of resin...I have wasted probably a gallon or more.. I laid out and started glassing a gas tank about a week ago.. I hated it and didn’t like how it looked so I trashed the whole thing.

Even at 18 gallons with your core choice and laminate schedule your under 300#’s still!

I think so!! We will see soon!! I will weight it

Boatbrains said:

I’ve never used them with clay, they do work good for wax fillets though.
DN, do they work good with modeling clay? I know it’s pretty stiff stuff to shape.

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Yes they work on modeling clay. Just a bit more rubbing needed but they work fine.

If you really knead the clay it becomes very pliable and easy to work. If you just roll it out and stuff in place it remains a bit stiffer.

Movin right along!

Sweet!

Travis Smith said:

View attachment 39332 All of the foam core is cut out. Tomorrow I will glue and glass

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You are keeping me motivated with my build. Love seeing the daily progress.

Sorry for all the incorrect spellings. I am using talk to text while driving.

If you have any empty buckets around (I have a garage full of them, plus empty peanut butter jars, since I save them for things I'm never going to organize/store) you can fill them with water and use them for weight.

I don’t but I’m going to get some as we speak. I am trying to get this glassed today.

Travis Smith said:

I don’t but I’m going to get some as we speak. I am trying to get this glassed today.

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Too bad you don't live close to me because I also have some milk crates full of chains and some buckets of bolts - both make great weights. I should find a picture of all the shit in my garage when it flooded :/

Any reason you chose to build the deck from a mold rather than laying the foam out and glassing over/around it, the way you would do a floor or something? I assume it will be much easier to fair, but was wondering if there was any other reason.

Making great progress!

Let me go ahead and ask a dumbass question....w/o regard to the pros / cons of the materials, could you have used wood rather than the divinycell to make the decks? If possible, it seems that it would have been a helluva lot easier( ?? )

Yes I could have used wood. A good choice of wood would have been Meranti or okoume. I personally do not think it would have been easier due to the fact that I used a router up against the jig and cut the foam out for somewhat of a uniformed shape . I do not believe the wood would have cut that easy. as far as gluing it goes I personally think they would be the same because you need weight on either in order for it to stick to the fiberglass skin.


I just wanted a fully foam core boat