...lest ye be forced to do much of the work again. After much sanding.
Ok. Let's start. By the time I reached this stage the temperatures went up to SCORCHING. it must have been over 40C in the tent, even in the late afternoon. But since I was running out of time I had to finish the hull in order to flip it and waterproof the deck for transport to the new location (a trip of almost 2000km).
The orange peel effect seemed not too bad, easy to sand out and the biaxial fabric makes it easy not to bite into the fibers - once you start seeing the white lines of the stitching you stop. The orange peel is caused by two things I presume: the unwillingness of the peel ply to yield to the curvature of the hull and probably some carelessness of mine while laying it.
The rest of the process, as noted above, was painful: the heat meant doing everything really fast as even the slow curing resin left not much more than 5-10 minutes of working time. Fast means sloppy. Especially in such a furnace. In retrospect it would have been better to opt for a different glassing scheme that required smaller pieces of cloth, but well, once I started the hard route I could not just stop as I would have wasted a lot of glass. The end result does not look terrible in the pictures below but most if what is laid will have to be sanded smooth to the point of being almost completely gone in places and some new glass will have to be laid.
The bow turned out great, but as I moved aft the results kept getting worse and worse.
All in all I don not recommend working in very hot conditions. And what I screwed up I can fix, it is just some additional work. I do have plenty of time now, so it will be aok.
cheers,
One way to cool off in an open ended tent like you’re using is to have an electric fan, at one entrance , blowing air over a pan of water in front of it. The hot air will evaporate the water, the energy transferred will lower the temperature. Unfortunately it will also raise the humidity which you probably don’t want
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