AND SO IT STARTS!!!

Well, fall is here and lazy summer sails are coming to an end, all in all the boat worked well. We spent a week on board and were very comfortable. The water pump failed, I replaced it, a few wiring bugs. The tranny acts up sometimes. The cone clutch is glazed and it needs rebuilding. That might get tackled this winter. We decided to go with a hard dodger, I am building it. The structure is just foam with a plywood skeleton. I bought 4 gallons of epoxy 1 gallon of hardener. I got a deal on 350 feet of woven mat fiberglass. 

Seen here, the basic shape with on layer of fiberglass. To do the edges I use tape to pull an oversize strip tight. then soak with epoxy followed by thickened epoxy to fill the voids. Then...grinding!

 You can see the corner lacks wood here, I lost to much after forming the radius. So i simply cut the foam away behind it and filled with thickened epoxy. I want to get three layers all around. I am making the poles and plates from aluminum.