Fibre Glassing Bottom

The time has come to glass the bottom of the boat and get it painted. Here are some photos of the glassing process. This has been the biggest job to date but went pretty well considering I had not glassed such a large area before.

I tried to get everything organized before starting. The epoxy is in the hot box on the bench.

Here is the first bottom panel held in place with tape.

Ta da! It’s done. Not many pictures of the in between stages as it was all go and no time to stop for photos.

Here is a shot from the back. Nice shiny hull when the epoxy is first put on. There are extra laminations at the transom and bottom/side junctions but I would not do this next time. The transom edge has a nice chamfer on it to allow the glass to stick around the corner and would take about ten laminations of glass to build it up. I did put two extra laminations of glass in but still had to build the edge up with epoxy anyway. Next time I’ll just use epoxy. After grinding down the epoxy on the transom edge I was able to get a nice sharp edge.