Staining the Recess - microBootlegger Sport - E30
Pre staining the cockpit recess so it will match the rest of the boat.
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Pre staining the cockpit recess so it will match the rest of the boat.
It is very common that the deck and hull don’t match when you go to put them together. Maybe humidity got to the wood between glassing the outside and the inside or, the opposite, the wood dried out. Or it could be that the deck or hull sagged a bit while sitting on the saw horses.
If you want to build a lightweight, rugged, and beautiful small boat, combining thin strips of wood with epoxy and fiberglass will make a cartoppable, low-maintenance, and gorgeous vessel. Nick Schade has been building strip-built boats for over 30 years.
Fitting the final strips on the back deck of the microBootlegger Sport.
All that is left to strip is the back deck. I need trim to the feature line between the side and the back deck.
With the center accent well centered, it is just a matter of fitting one end of the strip and getting the grain alignment to match the other side.
Getting the centerline exactly in the center helps assure the strips on either side will be a perfect mirror image.
Fitting in the Whiskey strip of the closing strip on the bottom.
Final sanding of the strips and applying a stain to the wood prior to fiberglassing.
This is the Strip Built Petrel design.