Rub Rails

 Rub Rails:

I decided to use blue gum hardwood sandwiching lighter colored spruce for the rub rails. But, 18mm thick blue gum will not bend easily around the forward section of the hull without breaking and I didn't want to steam these sections. So, I decided to halve each section to 9mm thick and laminate them in place. This required a bit more labor, but the timbers bend easily and smoothly around the hull.

Time to make some dust and mill up some blue gum hardwood floorboards into 9mm strips.

The rub rails needed to be 5m long, the floorboards were not long enough and required scarfing.

 A 90mm cut gave a one in ten scarf.

The scarfed sections are glued and held in place with clamps alongside a large aluminum straight edge. 

A port view of the first 9mm laminate temporarily screwed and glued in place.

Rudder / Glassing and peel ply

 

Fillets sanded, cloth tape smoothed in and the section cleaned up.

Fiberglass cloth smoothed over the lower sections.

Peel ply smoothed over the glass, this will leave a clean smooth surface and not require too much sanding.

For extra abrasion protection I laid two layers of glass cloth to the underside of the foot and finished with peel ply.

I just love peel ply, once removed it leaves an amine blush free super smooth finish...........did I say I love peel ply?

Glassing the Upper Bow area

 

The sheer clamps are rounded over on the inner and outer edges. The upper bow area is sanded, cleaned and masked up. The overlapping glass from the cabin top is feathered in.

Here is the glass cloth section ready for wetting out.

Port section in place.

Starboard section in place.