FAIRING THE HULL

Once we had glued the deck to the hull it was time to overturn the yacht and work on the hull first planing off the excess glue. Some of the strips were slightly proud of the rest so a little more planing was required to fair the hull.
After planing we all grabbed a longboard and sanded the entire hull feeling for incontinuity in fairness as we went. The technique for sanding is important. The longboard is held so that the sanding face makes good contact with the hull surface and sanding up and down against the contour. It is important to sand like this so we don't create eddies and undulations.

That's me on top chiseling a 4mm deep rebate around the centre-case and filling it to add strength around the edge and ensure no gaps or hollows exist. Then we saturated the hull in WEST Z105 epoxy before fibre-glassing with EDB400 matt.