Time to seal up the seam on SUGAR 2. We cut some seam size strips of 4 oz fiberglass cloth, about 30 feet of it and wet them out with TotalBoat Low Viscosity THIXO. The seam was propped open with paint sticks about every three feet, that is a good length of strip to handle at one time. We also prepositioned clamps and paint sticks to clamp the seam. The paint sticks help even out the pressure from the clamps.
Next we put down a bead of THIXO in the seam to bed the fiberglass strips, laid in the strips, put another bead of THIXO on the top of the strips, than took out the paint sticks.
Clamps. Lots of them. And since we didn't have enough big clamps we made some cheap ones by cutting sections of 4 inch PVC pipe and slitting one side.
Log of SUGAR 2.
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