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Thanks to all of the help from Mandy Eagle-Farrar and Kathleen Mansure during the 13-14 school year in getting our blog up and running again. With the help of student insight, Rachel will be taking over much of the blog work for this year unless there is a student or two that get inspired to run the blog. Check out all of the amazing trips we've been on this semester!

Sunday, March 11, 2012

We're done! ... with sanding.

This past trip to restore the boat was a huge day of completions. Beginning on the outside of the boat Connie and Sarah have completed all the pieces of fabric for fiber glassing to begin. They used a lot of both physical and mental energy in order to create the fewest number of pieces of fabric and made sure that all those pieces matched up so that once the boat is finished being fiber glassed it will look great.













Jumping inside the boat Chris has finished up the major areas of the boat that needed to have bondo used on it. These areas have been sanded down and are ready to be painted over.















 Justin, Andy and Cole have finished sanding the inside of the boat out between the ribs, on the ribs and under the ribs. They have also cleaned out the cracks in between the ribs and on Tuesday we will be putting 5200 into the cracks to solidify those areas.




 Lastly Corin has cut the door leading into the cabin out of the plywood and has gotten it to fit really well. The last step in that will be the instillation of the door itself.





 In all Thursday was a very productive day leading into this following Tuesday. Since we won't be meeting on Thursday we'll be doing a lot of work that requires time like placing the 5200 into the cracks, caulking under the ribs and beginning to fiber glass the outside of the boat. We're starting to see lots of progress on the boat and we'll be starting new sets of projects on Tuesday.

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