Taping the outside

This week we finished filling in the seams on the outside of the hull (the gaps left after removing the wires). When dry, these seams were sanding down to give a nice curve to accept the tape.



The seams were then taped and wetted out.


The next stage is to make and fit the bulkheads and gunwales.

Laying down and wetting out

This week we removed the wires from all the seams before flipping the canoe over to fill all the seams with thickened epoxy from the inside - leaving slight fillets as required.

The next stage was to paint (unthickened) epoxy along the seams and lay out strips of 2inch fibreglass tape. This was then wetted out and left to soak in and cure.

Starting to glue

This week we started the gluing process. We used masking tape along the seams on the inside of the hull (just to prevent any leaking).









The canoe was then flipped over and then we applied epoxy, thickened to a peanut butter like paste, to the outside of the seams in the gaps between the stitches. This will hopefully be enough to hold the shape when we remove the wire stitches.