Epoxy pre-coat applied to hull

Preparations for laminating the hull. A thin pre-coat of epoxy applied to the hull. About 175 grams to cover the 5 square meters hull area. This pre-coat prevents te epoxy to soak into the wood when the thicker layer with glass and epoxy is applied.

Thin pre-coat of epoxy. Color looks nice

Grinding of the hull completed

First step in grinding he hull is to remove all excess glue from the joints. This is made by using a triangular scraper. These ar modified to have various rounded shapes to also fit the inside of the canoe. The Titebond III excess glue comes off easily.

Scraper with various shape. Razor sharp.

Rough grinding is made with the battery powered sander or by hand using sanding blocks. All sanding tools is connected to a vacuum cleaner to get rid of all the dust. Sand paper is Mirka Abranet which is superior in terms of efficiency and durability. Starting with 80 grit and finish with 240.

Battery powered sander connected to battery powered vacuum cleener.

Mirka sanding block with interchangeable soles.
Flat, concave or two different convex ones. 

Two hand Mirka sanding block for the large flat areas. This
block is adjustable to fit both concave and convex surface

Looks OK

Other angle

Here is an area with both convex and concave areas. With right

tools it is not difficult to get a good result

Hull completed

Since last update I have now glued all strips in place and finally I put the last piece of strips into the hull. Next step is a lot of sanding.

Center strips glued into place. Cleats and pins to hold it in place

Center piece finally aligned

Fine adjustments of center piece

Center piece roughly cut out to the line.

Center piece aligned and secured by pins. The outline of the
strip was now drawn with a sharp pencil from the underside

This piece will be marked and shaped to exactly fit the hole

Two strips with straight edges glued together

Final cove and bead strip in place. On the next strip the cove side will be
planed to a straight edge to make it possible to fit the last piece.

Hole is smaller and smaller

Looks OK

Another strip

Easter update

Another few strips in place. The hole in the bottom gets smaller and smaller.