Saturday, February 13, 2010

Transforming Panta Rei into a wooden boat

Still working on the front beam structures, I needed a solid fibreglass or hardwood core.  I had a few pieces of oak after last year's refurbishment and decided to build a wooden boat.  The pieces trial fitted.  The opening cut roughly to it's final shape.


Glued them in with micro fibre thickened epoxy and let the epoxy cure a bit. Then I filled around the edges. Doubler plate laminated.


This is the front beam bulkhead waiting for the last reinforcing structure:  The opening flange.

 

Have you ever wondered what a piece of oak looks like when covered in substantial amounts of carbon fibres?  Actually almost the same as any other carbon fibre structure... 

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2 comments:

  1. CrashGybe 2214 February 2010 at 02:07

    Ok now is the hard and interesting part, the forward passageway flange. Good luck, I will be wanting a full report of what to do and what not to do.

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  2. Tor Rabe14 February 2010 at 20:17

    It was not so hard, just invisible. I'm not sure I gathered information on what not to do, but it seems what I did could work out. Well, still the inside tape to do.

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