Hi Everyone,
This is a very quick video showing the boats structural knees being glued into place using Vinyl Ester Resin, Cabosil also known as Untreated Fumed Silica with a little milled fibre added for added strength.
I also show how I form the radius using a tongue depressor and timber spoon.
The structural knees are installed between two lateral structural bulkheads and have been designed to increase the longitudinal structural integrity, increasing the boat strength. The longitudinal structure in a boat is critical to ensure the strength from bow to stern is sufficient to handle the forces generated on the boats hull in all conditions, especially rough dangerous weather.
These structural elements will also be glassed into position using structural fibreglass including 600gram 21 ounces double bias and biaxial with each layer separated by 255gram 8 ounces chopped strand matt. This layup is very important to ensure the strength is maintained throughout the boat. To lock all of these elements into position I'm using a process called tabbing also known as taping. The tabbing/taping process locks all of the structure together and whether It's a full height bulkhead a low stringer or the boat floor this system will ensure they form part of a very strong stable system and locked in together they then form one piece.
I should note the full height bulkheads come up to the underside of the floor which ensure they not only support the floor but also add to the boat strength overall.
The work yet to complete includes the swim platform, duckboard, plenty of tabbing and locking structure into place.
A long range fuel tank is getting designed with a 800 litre capacity is being considered to allow for those long extended trips out to the continental shelf to catch some seriously big fish and have some great times.
This has been a huge project to this point and we're approximately 50% through longitudinal
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