New blog engine

I have started this blog in 2010 when started building a Didi26 sailboat. In the meantime, I had to suspend the processfor a couple of years and when I came back to continue working on the project I had to face that the provider PHP engine was upgraded without upgrading my blog engine. As usual, my old stuff was not able to be presented on the newly featured site, and also the missing blog updates made it impossible to publish new posts and properly display the old ones. Now, I refurbish everything – my sources were untouched, so for dispelling doubts I am going to place the original date stamp for every republished post of mine.

Fairing after 3nd layer of coating epoxy

This is the last layer under the paint. Anyway, the painting base coating will be also epoxy, and the middle layers – the so-called ‘undercoat’ as well.

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Preparation for turning the hull (if you can, do all the painting before turning the hull, later much more difficult to paint)

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Fairing after 2nd layer of high coat

Putting on the second layer of UV Epoxy was relatively easy, but after each layer, I needed to sand the surface. Sanding is quite hard work, but the surface is getting nicer and nicer after every hour of the fairing. Some pictures: during the sanding process…

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