Finishing the Bilges and Construction of Steel Frames and Steps
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| Perspective of all of the floor frame templates in place with the mainmast step and foremast step | Wooden Patterns for floor frame #18 |
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Building and installing the Foremast Step |
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| Foremast step - welding jig. | DONE! |
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| Foremast step going in. ---- 1!! | 2!! |
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| Floor Frames | |
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| Floor frames completed. | Lining them up. |
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| Shows the detail of the epoxy covered Nida Core in the bilge. In order to make sure that theere is as little area as possible to trap water and dirt there is a block glued in between the frames. The stainless floors are held out of the bilge by an epe block. The black water tank mock up obscures the forward mast step weldment | We are putting epoxy and glass cloth over the scrim surface on the Nida Core.the peel ply allows us to save time in the next process which is going to be an additional two coats of epoxy mixed with white acrylic. The resulting smooth surface will be easy to wash down and does not have crevices to trap dirt. |
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| Limber holes. | |