SERENITE: Start of glueing work.

After placing all the wooden pieces in order for the gluing, we today started joining the wood parts to make the boat panels and we're going to be kept very busy with that for the coming weeks.

Here are some pictures of the parts that we glued together using epoxy and fiberglass and then sanded to a smooth finish.

We're using the Singapore Epoxy from Amro since we find it is more fluid and hence easier to work with and offers a longer pot-life that allows us to do more joints before having to mix new epoxy again.

For this kind of joint we're doing butt joints and using roving fiberglass of 400 g/m2. We also use a lot of plastic sheets since epoxy glue does not stick to plastic.

First we had to cut our fiberglass to the proper width for the joints we were going to make.

Rolling up very carefully.

Fixing the middle part firmly with small nails so that they would stay in place during epoxy-process.

Using the Singapore Epoxy.

Our kitchen-scale protected from glue.

plastic sheets used so that our wood dont get glued to the table.

Covered up everything to prevent humidity affecting out wood quality.

Two days later, we sanded the joints and did even more epoxy gluing. However, we didn't put fiberglass on both sides of the butt joints yet in order to retain more flexibility, lightness of material during working and so as not to create a too thick part along the panels when working with them(and also out of laziness of our part).