Taping the seams!

Time to tape up all the seams. For this task we purchased 12oz biaxial tape from Gulf Stream Composites. This will later be feather and covered with another layer of glass.

Biaxial fiberglass is a type of non-woven fiberglass fabric. Instead of a conventional weave pattern, biaxial cloths two layers lie at a 45-degree fiber angle to each other. The two layers are stitched together with sturdy polyester yarn.

More progress. I have the joints taped and now will need to do the edge seams...I have not used bi-axial tape before but I really like it.

Biaxial Cloth

Sides & sealed!

 The next step is to get the sides made up and mounted onto the hull. This was a moment of truth, would things match up?

It wasn't easy to get the sides aligned with one person.. the use of "milk crate" jacks helped to get the sides hung. They are held in place with thickened epoxy and screws.

After the sides were mounted, then whole hull was sealed in a base coat of epoxy.