C17 open in France - launched

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Re: C17 open 'Fair Enough' in France

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Looks good guy!!! Time to flip her and get the insides built. :D Tom
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Re: C17 open 'Fair Enough' in France

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When you paint dark without post curing; the sun will hit it some hot day and modify all the glass and you'll emd up repainting it someday..

Bubbles on the surface are ~usually~ caused by too deep a roller nap or foam rollers with porous surfaces.

It is hard to paint dark colors. They show much..

Painting is hard..
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In this case the main culprit for bubbles seems to be the new rollers with short hairs. I reverted to the last of my old rollers for the last coat and it went better. Nowhere close to a professional finish, but I knew that. Anyway what's done is done and it's good enough now. And yes I'll repaint some day, I expect that too.
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Re: C17 open 'Fair Enough' in France

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Flipped ! It went well, the hull is so light, at 6 it was a piece of cake. It's now on its trailer.

I have decided to pre-glue the stringers from underneath to provide more support for the bottom on the trailer as I didn't build a specific support for the hull after the flip. I'll fiberglass between stringers.

The bow droop is still quite pronounced but will bet fixed as planned.

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Re: C17 open 'Fair Enough' in France

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I can understand why you'd be tempted to install the stringers now for more support, but if it were me I'd shim and support from underneath as much as it takes, so I wouldn't have to fiberglass around those stringers.
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Re: C17 open 'Fair Enough' in France

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Nice to have lots of helping hands when you need them. Boat looks really nice. You are doing a good job on it.

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Re: C17 open 'Fair Enough' in France

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Yes it's good to have a team when you need it ! With lots of champagne and beer of course.

To pee wee : gluing the stringers was done after careful consideration of pros and cons, but I'm glad I did, the stringers are perfectly in place already and strengthen the hull as I walk inside. I'll lay the glass in 4 half width rolls instead of 2 full width. Note that I could lay a full width in the center but I prefer to respect the lamination schedule and keep an overlap on the keel.

By the way: first step in the hull, feels like a first step on the moon !

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Re: C17 open 'Fair Enough' in France

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I fixed the sheer line and removed the bow droop today. Took a couple of hours but I'm happy with the result so far.

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Much happier with the sheer now

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Re: C17 open 'Fair Enough' in France

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I have a pet peeve in low bows..

Good going..
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Re: C17 open 'Fair Enough' in France

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fallguy1000 wrote: Fri Jun 09, 2023 6:15 pm I have a pet peeve in low bows..

Good going..
Me, too! Looks great now.
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