5.7 oz carbon twill over 8mm CoreCell is the plan. However did they build boats before CNC machines, brad nailers, and heat guns?
stations for jig cut out every 12" on the CNC machine.
Stringers placed: (should have put more thought into stringer placement while in CAD)
Laying the foam: heat molded into place, with some screws to hold in place as the epoxy bonding the foam pieces sets
First two inches of bow milled from endgrain balsa, to get the shape right and to add a bit of impact resistance.
Screw holes all filled:
building up the trapezing rails
laying out the carbon; +/- 45
Outside skin in the vacuum bag:
Laminating a cradle around the hull:
Flipped:
The frame pulled out - it didn't go "SPROING"
'Bagging the inner skin. Managed to seal enough leaks around the perimeter to draw 12" of vacuum.
And here it is. At this point the shell can still be torqued out of shape. Time to add some structure!
