Posted by Nigel McC on
URL: https://forum.mymorbic.uk/Notes-on-a-Morbic-Build-in-New-Zealand-tp414p437.html

After four weeks of of inaction (it is after all summer in the southern hemisphere, which means less time in the workshop and more time in the great outdoors), back into the build. I’ve filleted all the joints to the buoyancy tanks, added a reveal coat of primer/undercoat (I use a thin coat of white undercoat primer as a reveal, because it is significantly easier to spot the flaws if the construction is a uniform colour) and faired obvious holes and flaws. Those were mainly from construction stage, and also a few places where the top coat of resin on fibreglass on the floor was not quite thick enough.
Now it is into sanding, filling, fairing, sanding filling fairing stages. I have left off the trim off the centreboard case and thwarts; these will be timber finish, so  all add those later when the painting is complete.
Sailing season so far has been awful. Weeks of wind and rain and now a cyclone has hit the East Coast. The Hauraki Gulf, my usual sailing ground was 35 gusting 50 knots this morning (10 January). Good workshop weather.