Hi Gang,
I am about to get moving on my project and have the first technical hurdle.
There are two areas of warping in the Fiberglas hull. Both are significant enough that they will likely reduce the end result (visually and maybe performance). Especially once painted gloss white.
However I am not sure how to tackle them.
The first is some warping on the upper side of the port side. Its like two concave depressions either side of a convex lump. there are two screw holes on the lump that appear to have had something mounted on the inside. possibly something that spanned across the boat to the starboard side (i.e. pushing outwards):
The second is also on the port side, underside of the hull between the bow and mid-hull. This one looks like and impact from the inside of the hull (would have to have been a pretty significant impact which has me puzzled). There was an internal support there (now removed and how I discovered there was a glass patch over it), where at some stage the hull had pulled away from the support and the gap glassed over (see second pic showing areas of glass patch and where hull/support had separated).
So my big Q is... how do I deal with these?
Cheers,
AJ
I am about to get moving on my project and have the first technical hurdle.
There are two areas of warping in the Fiberglas hull. Both are significant enough that they will likely reduce the end result (visually and maybe performance). Especially once painted gloss white.
However I am not sure how to tackle them.
The first is some warping on the upper side of the port side. Its like two concave depressions either side of a convex lump. there are two screw holes on the lump that appear to have had something mounted on the inside. possibly something that spanned across the boat to the starboard side (i.e. pushing outwards):
The second is also on the port side, underside of the hull between the bow and mid-hull. This one looks like and impact from the inside of the hull (would have to have been a pretty significant impact which has me puzzled). There was an internal support there (now removed and how I discovered there was a glass patch over it), where at some stage the hull had pulled away from the support and the gap glassed over (see second pic showing areas of glass patch and where hull/support had separated).
So my big Q is... how do I deal with these?
Cheers,
AJ
