Day 31 - epic day of everything

We weren't messing around Saturday and had grand master plans to get as much done as possible this weekend to try and wrap things up. Everyone was at the shop by 9:30am and once the room was up to temp, we got right into it.

In laminating the bottoms of our boards, we used the cut lap method, which meant we ran masking tape around the deck, wrapped the bottom cloth around onto this tape, and cut the cloth at the masking tape lines to get a smooth lap line. In retrospect, we're not sure if this was necessary or not, but it did cause us some grief in cleanup. Because we painted our boards before glassing, the resin started to pull up paint when we took the tape off. Drew managed to come up with a method to minimize the damage on his Fish, but we all ended up having to do a bunch of touchup in preparation for glassing the decks.

So, while Micah did this touchup work on his board we glassed Friday, we started on Kat's. We devised a highly advanced and technical format to track and maximize our glassing and drying times - pencil and a stick of wood. Ok, well at least the chart was fancy. I think we burned it though so you'll never know. We were able to plan out all our flip times by tracking this way, and make sure that we could move boards and turn everything around to get as many top laminates and then top hot coats done as we could in one day. We were able to do all 4 top lams and all 4 top hot coats, by using a "cheater coat" and doing the hot coat (resin only) before the top cloth had dried completely. This worked perfectly, and 12+ hours later, all 4 boards have just the bottom hot coats and clean up to do Sunday.

Attendees: Drew, Justin, Micah, Kat