One step closer in finishing up our super Quepos fishing boat! Today we put the box together. Pretty easy, we have a board in every corner and we screw through the foam into the boards to hold the thing together until the resin/cabosil mix dries, and then we pull the screws out and the boards and grind down the corners and glass the thing! I got a couple of questions after we did the console on how we made round corners. I tried to explain the best I can, but a picture is worth a thousand words! First, since we are dealing with 3/4 inch sheets of foam (after glass) we marked out 3/4 of an inch on both side of the corner.
Then we use the 4 inch grinder with 36 grit to knock down a little material off the corner, but we finish it by hand with 36 grit cloth backed paper and a small board. Since the top sheet sits on the bottom sheet, you don't make it all the way through.
And then when you get the curve you are looking for, you glass the corners with an additional 1708 strip 12 inches wide. Also, don't forget to sand the first 8 inches with 36 grit to rough it up before you glass in the corners, we use the 4.5 inch grinder with 36 grit on EVERYTHING we are going to stick glass to every time.
