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Strip: What did I do wrong here, and how can I fix it? *PIC*
By:Darel Matthews
Date: 2/11/2011, 12:46 pm

Attahced are two pics down the length of my hull facing aft. I originally noticed my strips starting to pull in between forms when I was about 6 or 8 strips up from the sheerline, so I changed the way I was clamping them for gluing thinking that was the problem. After about three or four more strips I'm noticing the problem only getting worse. How did I screw this up, and what, if anything can I do about it? This seems like a pretty major mess here.

Originally I was using 2" spring clamps along the length of the strip to hold each flush with the previous strip, with adjustable wide-jaw spring clamps between forms to clamp them down for a tight joint. I am using hot glue on the forms. After I noticed the first wave or so I stopped using the wide-jaw clamps to keep the strips tight edge-to-edge and would wrap an inner tube around the strips, struched a little and clamped to hold tight. I'm still using the 2" spring clamps to keep each new strip fair to the previous.

WTF?

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Strip: What did I do wrong here, and how can I fix it? *PIC*
Darel Matthews -- 2/11/2011, 12:46 pm
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Darel Matthews -- 2/11/2011, 12:49 pm
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Darel Matthews -- 2/11/2011, 12:50 pm
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Paul G. Jacobson -- 2/11/2011, 2:07 pm
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Darel -- 2/11/2011, 5:34 pm
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Kudzu / Jeff Horton -- 2/11/2011, 2:04 pm
form spacing
Paul G. Jacobson -- 2/11/2011, 2:25 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 2/11/2011, 3:15 pm
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Darel -- 2/11/2011, 5:36 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 2/11/2011, 6:31 pm
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Darel -- 2/11/2011, 8:11 pm
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Rod Tait (Orca Boats) -- 2/11/2011, 4:16 pm
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Darel -- 2/11/2011, 5:37 pm
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Rob Macks / Laughing Loon CC&K -- 2/11/2011, 8:29 pm
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Darel -- 2/11/2011, 9:23 pm
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Ian Cummins -- 2/11/2011, 9:48 pm
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Rob Macks / Laughing Loon CC&K -- 2/12/2011, 9:40 am
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Etienne Muller - ireland -- 2/12/2011, 5:58 am
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Darel Matthews -- 2/12/2011, 11:21 am