We had a overall idea of the form of the deck before construction began. Once we had the hull to work with, we began building the needed structural reinforcements. With these in place, we started shaping with the leading edge of the pontoons.
These were filled with 2 part 2 pound foam. We are using a rough grit disk sander to shape these.
Today we started forming the cockpit fairing. To do this we cut a radius on a thin piece of ply and epoxied it in place. We used this to hold pine battens. These were resin coated and stapled in place.
Over these, we are adding layers of heavy biax glass.
After the pontoon foam and cockpit fairing is satisfactorily shaped, the whole deck surface will get a lamination of glass cloths to bring it up to strength.
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