I needed some variation so I started sanding and priming the strips already done.

The best way to remove epoxy is to heat it up with an hot air blower.

I bought a pretty heavy machine from Festool for this job. I took me two hours each side to make the surface as smooth as...

  Strips 16..19

    Strips 20 (transom is closed!!)

As you can see I made tow mistakes: the latest pictures shows that I used a too short strip, so it was almost impossible to twist it at the end. (driving a screw in it is also dangerous because the strip would split)

The second, more mature mistake: I beveled off too much from the inner keel. This is caused because when beveling the moulds and transom and inner keel, I did hold a thin batten against the moulds to see it was stroking, however the angle in which I hold it was wrong. I should have hold in far more horizontal.

Tip: when doing this, measure with a rope along each mould and transom and mark at several positions corresponding with e.g. 10 strips, 20 strips and 30 strips. These marks may give a very good indication of how to hold the batten for the beveling process.

Scratching off the epoxy is easiest when strips are laid in same direction

Primer too thin

  Primer OK

Priming ready

Above you see the consequences of not noticing when strips push themselves away from the moulds. I had to flatten the surface with epoxy filled with micro balloons and some other stuff to make a nice primer.

Strip 20 ready, transom fully covered, finally some kind of milestone