Saturday, April 18, 2020

Sabre 28: Bottom work

We opened the blisters with a hammer and chisel.  I like this better than a disc sander.  It is way cleaner and you can be both quick and precise.  it has the benefit of preserving the original curvature you can fair to.  After the hull dried for 20 days, I filled the voids with West System epoxy with adhesive filler and barrier coat additive.
After this set, It was sanded and got an additional fairing coat.  After this was sanded I rolled on 2 passes of barrier coat additive in epoxy.
Today we will lightly sand this in preparation for our ablative bottom paint.  We will be using Pettit Ultima SR 60.



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