May 10 - "To Remove" turned into "To Build up" - First GRP experience

Till now, the main word of my project was "remove", from now on, the main work will be "re-build". Most of the work to do is to cover some holes and reinforce the structure, as the junction deck-hull. In the back of my car I carried 16meters of mat and roven as also 10 liters of resin to start the buiding enterprise ! A bit overdimensioned but its better more than less.The first experience was to reinforce the a particular GRP recipient for water acumulation in the cockpit ground. I had the support of my friend Miguel Casimiro who contributed with his GRP experience

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May 3 to 7 - Preparing the topside for painting

This was the last week of paternety license and the last hope of finishing the boat before the summer ! Monday I invited the guy who will spray the boat for a conversation about the detail as also pint preparation evalution. The veridict was that the topside was no proper sanded and I shall used another process i.e an intrface between the Orbital and the sand paper. Also he recommend me to use a way of detecting the flat areas to smoth:  randomly soft spray all the topside with a cheap spray and sand it. Its true, the places where the hull had depression or flat spots rised clearly ! so then with the orbital I managed to achieved a smoth and homogenious hull curve, like a baby skin !!!!