Borrowed Skipper's garden cart to make a tailwheel for SCOUT.
Carriage House visit for SCOUT to get fit with a rudder adapter.
Rudder adapter will be this size, with an upper and lower gudgeon. Built up from fiberglass and store bought Ronstan gudgeons.
We'll use 2 of these Ronstan gugeons and embed them in a custom made fiberglass adapter.
Ordered from Vela Sailing, 1/4 inch diameter holes for pintle.
Gudgeons will be fit to the stern cap and embedded in 4 oz fiberglass cloth tape, with TotalBoat THIXO thickened epoxy.
The 4 oz fiberglass cloth will be bedded in THIXO, pre thickened epoxy that comes in a 2 part cartridge. Use a High Thrust 18:1 caulk gun to dispense, not the standard household caulk gun, your hands will thank you.
6 strips of fiberglass cloth wet out with THIXO, they will form the inner adapter. Gudgeons will be added and an outer matrix of epoxy and cloth will form the outer adapter. We worked the THIXO into the cloth with part of a paint stir stick.
Taped poly film to the stern cap, then laid fiberglass strips, then another layer of poly to smooth things out.
Taped poly film to the stern cap, then laid fiberglass strips, then another layer of poly to smooth things out. 2 layers of cloth on either side with 2 layers over the end.
SCOUT bunking with ZIP, WINNIE and MARGARET ROSE.
Log of SCOUT.
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