Panel extension glassed in and sanded flush

First round of fairing sanded down

Really happy with how flat it all ended up

Got that panel extension trimmed to size the other night

Finally got the port side dash support tabbed into the bulkhead panel on this side

Little setback when filling the open edges of the panel cores. Standby for explanation 😂

I filled in the front edges (of the honeycomb core) of the dash supports and the back edge of that panel extension on the starboard side with thickened resin. I had the wax and MEKP measured out alongside the cup of resin. I mixed in the wax before I started adding cabosil and was planning to add the hardener after I reached peanut butter consistency. Well, I got back into the boat the next day, excited to sand it all down nice and flush, and I ran my finger across the filled edge and covered my finger with thickened resin. I spent a few minutes thinking back and retracing my steps to solve the mystery of the uncured "peanut butter." I realized that when I was cleaning everything up the night before, I dumped a curious amount of MEKP out of the small measuring cup into the trash. At the moment I had a split second thought that it seemed like a lot of extra to be tossing out. In hindsight I realized that it wasn't just residual hardener I dumped into the trash. I never actually mixed any into the resin! Lesson of the day folks, save the weed pen for monotonous activities like sanding, not resin mixing 🤣🤣🤣An hour or so of cleanup and I was good to go!


Tonight I went over and redid that work. I triple checked that both the wax and hardener were mixed in this time lol. Ya live and ya learn I suppose 😂. Exciting note- I think I'm actually going to be laying gelcoat down at some point next week!

Outstanding
thats alot of work
Very inspiring..thank you for sharing

Thanks for the kind words! I'm glad someone is following lol

Panel edges filled and sanded

Also got the corners of the cuddy entrance rounded out nicely and final sanded

Some makeshift squared-edge block sanders for the panel edges and also the bottom edges of the dash. Not really enough surface area for my orbital sander to leave a nice flat face. Also made a spindle sander for those corners. That black plastic puck is spacer from a transfer case lowering kit for one of my old jeeps lol. Worked great!

Looking good!!