ClassGlobe5.80: Hull no.23

 Fairing the hull and Priming After quite a long time away from the boat due to work commitments and Freddie heading across the Atlantic I'm finally back in the barn and persevering with the fun of filling, fairing and lots and lots of sanding.  We decided to fair and prime the hull before turning over as having painted a fair share of boats before, working underneath is even less fun! We left a strip of around 150mm from the gunnel down the topsides for hull to deck joint. I've tried really hard to limit the amount of filler I've put on the boat, it being made of flat panels there isn't lots of curvature that needs to be smoothed over, and more filler equals more sanding, more cost and a lot more time. The majority of filler I've been using is epoxy with micro balloons and some colloidal silica mixed to a nice thick peanut butter consistency. This was applied with a nice long straight edge and plastering spatulas. Having sanded this back, I then used some quick cur

 Glassing the Hull This was a big day and a major milestone in our build! Having blended, rounded and faired the planking joints as much as we could we taped all of the joints using 2 layers of 600gsm triaxial tape, during this we sealed all the plywood with epoxy, just rolling it on with a paint roller so that when we laminated the bare plywood wouldn't pull resin out of the laminate and leave it dry. We covered the hull in peel ply and let this cure and then gave it a light sand up to remove any amine residue not caught by the peel ply and give it a key for the main lamination. We completed the main lamination in a single day, having drafted in a couple of extra helpers. We went for 600gsm woven roving to give a total laminate weight of 1200gsm - slightly over the requirements.  We worked on a basis of a glass to resin ratio of 2:1 so for every m^2 of fibreglass we needed 1.2kg of resin. We had someone measuring and mixing small batches constantly as the three of use were laminat