Day 11 - 1/2 price board sale!

It's been a few days since our last post -- we finished doing everything we'd figured out how to do so far and had to do a bunch of research and reading to see what was next. We also had to start looking into ordering fins, fin boxes, fiberglass cloth, epoxy resin, and all the good stuff that comes with that!

But with a free day, and nothing better to do, Drew and I ventured out to the hardware store and picked up a surform, which looks like a cheese grater on the bottom, and is one of the tools we needed to do our fine shaping. Micah and I had glued a test peice of foam to a scrap stringer last week, so today we took our small plane, new surform and some sandpaper and did some testing on how to shape our rails. This went awesome, and we were even impressed at how well our scrap, 1/2 board turned out.

We figured out that with some measuring, we could tape off some highs and lows for the rail shapes, and just use our tools to gradually slope in between these lines. The results were great, and we now feel confident in our ability to tackle the live boards very soon. We still have to find a place to do the final shaping and glassing, so the search continues. Here's a few pics of our test board and results!

Attendees: Drew, Justin