Friday, March 7, 2014

building a carbon skin for the port side centerboard

Using a cad/cam cut wing blank from www.flyingfoam.com as a mold
and some .5 mil poly as a parting sheet... 


The camera was mounted to close, hence the trouble with the hot box foam in the end.

Sunday, January 19, 2014

ready for pinhole filling and paint




* I guess a gray background is not the best choice!

Friday, January 17, 2014

fairing the inside joint

fairing the inside of the joint , using 45 X 45 (11 oz) and 0 X 90 (5.2 oz) carbon.

clamping foil top skin

clamping foil top skin
and a day later the bottom skin


using an old broken center board added the spar



New centerboard w/lifting foil

carbon spar on tool for vacuum bagging

carbon spar, mostly uni with some 45 X 45 11 qz