pics of progress

I am making decent progress on the stringer job on my SN. I cut the stringers out, sealed them, and epoxyed them into place in the boat. I have started glassing them in but I am still working on the glass today. The factory only used one layer of glass on the stringers and several layers to cover the foam. The mat I have seems to be thicker than the stuff CC used so I am probably going to do it the same way. I was thinking of using two layers of mat and one layer of cloth to caver the foam. Anyone have any suggestions?

Looks good.
What weight mat and how many gallons of epoxy did you get. I'm getting ready to order my materials, but I'm not sure of how heavy of mat to go with.
I also want to reinforce the hull between the secondary and the wall it doesn't seem to be as thick as in the bilge area. I'm not putting foam back in so I thought I'd put some extra glass in that area.

I hope to have this boat in the water by june. I know it sounds soon but I work on it literally every night and on weekends. I can't afford to have my seats built from scratch yet so we will be sitting on coolers and fat sacs just so we can get out this summer and ride. I am using 1 1/2 ounce heavy mat. I have already went through 6 yards of mat and two gallons of epoxy. I estimate by the time I am done I will use 5 or 6 gallons and 25-30 yards of mat. your job may not be as large though. thickening the resin to set the stringers in eats up alot of resin. Also the filler does not go very far. A $9 quart of filler made enough thickened resin to bond 3-4 feet of one side of the stringer. And you can kiss any bucket you mix it in goodbye.

It's a shame nobody around here has any opinions about whether to foam or not to foam...

Sounds like you are almost there Joe.
Foam until it hurts... I know cause that is what I did.

newoldboat wrote: I am using 1 1/2 ounce heavy mat.

Are you only using mat?

BuffaloBFN, I am only using mat on the stringers and I will use cloth on the last layer of the floor. Do you have another suggestion? I am open to criticism because this is my first time working with fiberglass.

Looking good man! When we put stringers,bulk heads,floors,transums in we use a mix of chop and byaxle Its hard to tell what type and weight of glass you used by the pics, but to me it looks like you used 1 1/2oz. which is not very strong at all.. A good type of glass would be what is called 1808 byaxle,which is stronger cause it it tighter woven..even stronger is 3610 byaxle woven..remember you want to use a 50-50 mat to resin ratio.thats by weight.. but looks good so far.. keep up the hard work