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Re: S&G: CLC Shearwater 17 Build
By:Gero Verheyen
Date: 9/22/2014, 11:31 pm
In Response To: S&G: CLC Shearwater 17 Build (Gero)

Tonight I installed the hatch spacers and sills, having patiently worked with them yesterday to make them fit. The rear assembly actually fit fine, it was the front spacer that was throwing me off yesterday since it didn't seem to line up the way it had above deck.

Before I could glue it up, I had to retrieve my clamps from the hatch covers, to which I had glued the stiffeners.

I then checked the fit two more times before applying the thickened epoxy. I put painter's tape on the underside of the wood blocks to prevent them from accidentally getting glued to the deck.

With all the clamps in place, I carefully flipped the deck over, making sure both ends were supported, and applied more of the thickened epoxy by making fillets around the inside of the deck hatches. This will also help to smooth the transition from deck to sill when I glass the underside of the deck. once it's cured, I'll check to see if I need to build the front to back fillets a little more to improve the transition. The first image is right after I smeared on the epoxy

and the second is after I cleaned it up a bit.

I grabbed a shot of the inside of the hull - it has been glassed (cockpit) and I applied a fill coat throughout the hull.

Any comments or suggestions you have are always welcome.

Gero

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S&G: CLC Shearwater 17 Build
Gero -- 9/15/2014, 10:17 pm
Re: S&G: CLC Shearwater 17 Build
JohnAbercrombie -- 9/15/2014, 10:26 pm
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Gero -- 9/15/2014, 10:31 pm
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John Messinger -- 9/16/2014, 8:04 am
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Gero Verheyen -- 9/17/2014, 1:22 pm
Re: S&G: CLC Shearwater 17 Build *PIC*
JohnAbercrombie -- 9/17/2014, 3:37 pm
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Gero -- 9/17/2014, 10:42 pm
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Niven Paine -- 9/18/2014, 2:01 am
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Gero -- 9/17/2014, 10:40 pm
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Gero -- 9/19/2014, 12:00 am
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Gero -- 9/19/2014, 12:02 am
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Gero Verheyen -- 9/20/2014, 12:24 am
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george jung -- 9/20/2014, 12:04 pm
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Gero Verheyen -- 9/20/2014, 12:30 pm
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Gero Verheyen -- 9/21/2014, 12:40 am
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Gero Verheyen -- 9/22/2014, 11:31 pm
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Gero Verheyen -- 9/24/2014, 1:02 am
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Gero Verheyen -- 9/25/2014, 12:43 am
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Bill Hamm -- 9/25/2014, 9:08 am
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Gero Verheyen -- 9/25/2014, 9:19 am
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Bill Hamm -- 9/25/2014, 5:56 pm
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Gero Verheyen -- 9/25/2014, 11:36 pm
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Gero Verheyen -- 9/26/2014, 4:47 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/27/2014, 6:37 am
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Gero Verheyen -- 9/27/2014, 8:18 am
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Gero Verheyen -- 9/29/2014, 11:33 pm
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Gero Verheyen -- 10/1/2014, 11:04 pm
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Gero Verheyen -- 10/5/2014, 5:59 pm
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Gero Verheyen -- 10/7/2014, 11:17 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/8/2014, 4:49 pm
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Gero Verheyen -- 10/8/2014, 5:54 pm
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Yoshi -- 10/8/2014, 10:12 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/9/2014, 12:50 am
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Gero Verheyen -- 10/10/2014, 4:21 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/11/2014, 9:00 am
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Gero Verheyen -- 10/11/2014, 6:11 pm
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Gero Verheyen -- 10/14/2014, 11:44 pm
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Gero Verheyen -- 10/26/2014, 10:35 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/27/2014, 12:29 am
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Gero Verheyen -- 10/27/2014, 7:39 am