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Re: Stealing a design
By:Al Gunther
Date: 5/10/2001, 11:10 am
In Response To: Re: Stealing a design (Jim Pace)

: Great job! Interesting construction technique, too. If I understand
: correctly, you didn't use any glue between the strips, but rolled on a
: coat of epoxy after the hull was complete. Did you have any trouble with
: the strips coming apart during fairing and sanding?

: Jim

Thanks for your kind words. I used System Three Clear Coat, which is a penetrating epoxy, for this. I discovered it quite accidently about 10 years ago when I left a stir stick on a plywood bench. Even though only the tip had epoxy on it, it wicked the entire length and I had to sand it off the bench. I did many further experiments before I had the nerve to try it on a strip built boat. Then, I found that if any of it got on a staple, it would wick down the staple hole, but other than that, it worked like magic. Regular epoxy won't work for this, by the way.

Clear Coat doesn't set up nearly as hard as regular epoxy, but it bonds better and for holding the strips together for sanding and filling before glassing, it works just fine. I had to move my deck clear across my shop, which was over the top of a 26 foot sailboat I'm building in the middle of the shop. It was only held together by the Clear Coat and I had no problems at all. The hull got glassed before it ever left the molds.

G**rg* R*b*rts is the only other person I know who uses Clear Coat this way.

Al

Messages In This Thread

Stealing a design *Pic*
Al Gunther -- 5/9/2001, 8:33 pm
Mariner design features
Greg Jones -- 5/12/2001, 9:24 am
Re: Mariner design features
Ken -- 5/21/2001, 10:22 pm
Re: Mariner design features
Al Gunther -- 5/12/2001, 11:02 am
Re: MAX dreams
LeeG -- 5/11/2001, 9:26 am
Re: MAX dreams
Brian Nystrom -- 5/11/2001, 12:25 pm
Re: MAX dreams
LeeG -- 5/11/2001, 7:05 pm
Re: Stealing a design
peter czerpak -- 5/10/2001, 12:58 pm
Apparatus for borrowing a design *Pic*
edgar -- 5/10/2001, 1:35 pm
Re: Apparatus for borrowing a design
peter czerpak -- 5/10/2001, 2:29 pm
Re: Stealing a design
David Hanson -- 5/10/2001, 11:11 am
Re: Stealing a design
Al Gunther -- 5/10/2001, 11:31 am
Re: Stealing a design
Jim Pace -- 5/10/2001, 9:04 am
Re: Stealing a design
Al Gunther -- 5/10/2001, 11:10 am
Re: sanding after Clear Coat
Shawn Baker -- 5/10/2001, 11:40 am
Re: sanding after Clear Coat
Al Gunther -- 5/10/2001, 3:45 pm
Re: Stealing a design
Shawn Baker -- 5/9/2001, 9:53 pm
Re: Stealing a design
Al Gunther -- 5/10/2001, 1:05 am
Re: Stealing a design
Roger Nuffer -- 5/9/2001, 9:21 pm
Re: Stealing a design
Al Gunther -- 5/10/2001, 12:50 am
Re: Stealing a design
daren neufeld -- 5/9/2001, 8:52 pm
Re: Stealing a design
Al Gunther -- 5/10/2001, 12:44 am
Re: Spoiled to the Max
Shawn Baker -- 5/10/2001, 10:00 am
Re: Spoiled to the Max
Al Gunther -- 5/10/2001, 10:56 am
Re: Spoiled to the Max
Ken -- 5/11/2001, 12:09 am
Re: Spoiled to the Max
Shawn Baker -- 5/10/2001, 11:24 am
Re: Spoiled to the Max
Al Gunther -- 5/10/2001, 11:41 am
Re: Mariner seats
Shawn Baker -- 5/10/2001, 11:51 am
Re: Mariner seats
peter czerpak -- 5/10/2001, 12:53 pm
Re: Mariner seats
Julie Kanarr -- 5/10/2001, 1:52 pm
Re: Mariner seats
Shawn Baker -- 5/10/2001, 1:44 pm
removable rear bulkhead
Julie Kanarr -- 5/10/2001, 12:17 pm
Re: removable rear bulkhead
Shawn Baker -- 5/10/2001, 1:50 pm
Re: removable rear bulkhead
peter czerpak -- 5/10/2001, 2:27 pm