Gluing in the Inwales

Time to glue in the Inwales this was a lot harder than I had first imagined. The Inwale is 16ft long and very thin so it bends and wobbles all over the place. On side is covered with sticky epoxy that you want to avoid touching with your hands and you certainly don’t want it on your cloths. Now you have to bend it to the inside curve of the hull and clamp it in to place. I started a one end and clamped every 40cm or so and slowly worked my way to the other end of the boat. Then I went back and put more clamps on so that everything was held in place firmly while it dried. The blue tape under the inwale is to try and catch the epoxy as it squezzed out. this helped a lot although i had to keep going back to clean up the drips that extended pased the tape. Better to clean it up now rather than have to sand it off latter. As you can see it used a lot of clamps, more than 30 in fact, and although it did not use every clamp I had it certainly was most of them so I could only do one side at a time.

All Clamped Up