Step 9: Covering the Hull in Six Ounce Fiberglass Cloth

Ok, big day ahead of us. The covering of the hull should be done in one shot. I am extremely lucky to have had the help of a great friend throughout this build and his help on this day was just awesome. I had set aside about five to six hours to complete the job and so my bud and myself were prepared for the long haul. I laid out the glass during the week and had smoothed it over the hull for several days and all was going well. All we had to do was to mix up a bunch of epoxy in small batches and wet out the fiberglass on the hull.

As I said i thought it was going to take five or six hours to complete but the two of us worked like a well oiled machine. He mixed up the goo I spread it over the fiberglass and he followed up with a roller and removed the air bubbles. Three hours later we were done, below are the results.

Fiberglass cloth draped over the hull and smoothed around the corners. The cloth was doubled in the center and brought out to cover the whole side of the boat to the gunwales.

Here the cloth was trimmed and smoothed again and again. This was done in the evenings during the week. Below are the results.

The entire exterior of the hull completely fiberglassed!!

Folded fiberglass seams barely visible.

Stern corner seams looked pretty good too. The white is not air bubbles but dust from knocking down spikey fiberglass bits.

The end result is not too shabby. My bud Mr. Stacy deserves a round of applause for the work he did that Saturday morning. To make clean up and trimming a whole lot easier the rails were covered in duct tape. All I had to do was to take a box cutter and run it down the edge of the rail and that was that. All neat and trimmed.