13 th March.

Ticking along slowly.

Trim tab mounts in progress.  I used vinyl over the tabs (like used in outdoor furniture cushions) as a friction surface for the tabs.  Good idea?? We shall see.  6 layers of 300 gram roving epoxied over the top as the first stage.  Flat mounting panels started off as polyester sheet which was left over from a CO2 scrubbing system I made for a submarine. (Lula 1000) and epoxy glassed over to thicken it up.  I then epoxy glued the 2 bits together hopefully at 90 degrees with a very small fillet.  Today I glassed over the small fillets on each side with 3 layers of 200 gram glass and then put bigger fillets over the join for a better radius.   It is keeping warm next to our fireplace for the night and will get a bunch more epoxy glass to bring it up to design spec tomorrow.

It is windy and cold here in the Azores at the moment so need heating for epoxy work.  

Going to prepare all the bits that need to be bolted onto the transom so they can all be done at the same time.  It is a mission to remove the foam flotation through the hatches to gain access but at least it is possible.