Letting the dogs out

Today we let the floats out for a walk, Fetske had to sit down after that ;-) we had to go to the street to turn them (front to back and back to front) because the float on the sealing takes too much place when the nose is in the front and I need some space to glue the nose on in the front. When al was closed and settled again I glued the nose on. Tomorrow I can shape the cone and maybe we place Thrill Seeker in the winter inside storage. We weight one float with the nose on and it was 82 kg.

unpacked the nose

Today we did unpack the nose and It looked nice. I started with the second nose cone and it is almost ready, I only have to glue some piece to the top but I do that when I trial fit the cone. I did also some piece of carbon on the inside of the hatch entrance.

nose laminated

Yesterday I had to work in the afternoon and in the morning we did have looked at a shed to build the centre hull. Today I faired the cone and laminated it with two layers of 300gr. On the nose edge I put two layers UD to give it more strength. I also put two small layer 250gr over the holes for the side stays.
I made a small shelter and put the heater in it to get some good temperature

nose cone shaped and fared

I did shape the cone with a band grinder and the last part with a longboard with some tape on one side so it did not fare the carbon but only the foam. As a finish I put some putty on it to fill the holes. Now I only have to fare the putty and the put some carbon on.

glued the nose cone on

Today I glue the nose cone on, I also placed some UD carbon across the tubes before I placed the cone. The cone is made of many foam off cuts, it cleans the shed, I had two garbage bags full of them.
To place the cone I had to place the float across the shed to get some space in front. Tomorrow I am going to shape the cone in the right shape.

Started with the nose

From the offcuts I made some foam blocks what I glued to a centre web made of two foam plates. There is not much room as you can see, the stern is against the other wall. The foam is not yet glued to the floats so I can easily shape it in form. I still have to glue some more blocks to it.

Last week we unpacked the float out of the follies and the result looked very good. Yesterday I scraped and plastered the seams with some putty. The hatch entrance got some extra 250gr carbon because there was only 250gr. This made it easier to put the vacuum back on for the outside laminate.
Today I started with the nose cones to clue some foam together.