It's a beautifully designed boat, but this part of the build made me question (just momentarily) the wisdom of building a boat with so many chines! It was alot of grunt work...on the inside of the hull, all of the panel seams (chines) were glued with thickened epoxy between the wire ties, then the wire ties removed and the remaining spaces epoxied. The seams were then sanded smooth and fiberglass tape applied, soaked in un-thickened epoxy. During all of these steps, I had applied packing tape to the outside of the seams to prevent the epoxy from running out.
Then I got some friends to help
flip the hull, and the whole process was repeated on the outside seams. Instead of just 'glassing the seams for the bottom 3 chines with fiberglass tape, I used 6 oz fiberglass cloth over the entire bottom for added protection when beaching the boat. The cloth was cut in a curve along the edges to follow the 3rd chine with about 2 inches of overlap. I was racing against ti
me to get this step done before really cold weather set in for good, (it was the middle of November) and fortunately the weather cooperated.
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