RE: Volvo 70 Ericsson Build Log
OK, so the glass is all dry now, so the deck is taken off the profiles. The masking tape worked fairly well, and the deck peeled back without much trouble. Once the deck was off, the profiles were taken out of the hull. As I mentioned earlier, the hull and deck at this stage are quite stiff enough to be used as the final boat. The outside surface with the tissue cloth and epoxy is plenty strong enough to withstand scratches and bumps that it may get during its life as a boat.
Inside of the hull was coated with resin just for some water protection, and a couple of reinforcement patches of 90gm cloth were added at the transom, rudder and keel locations. The reinforced patches are amazingly stiff, even where I only used tissue cloth on the inside as well. At this stage, I have no worries about strength.
It seems to be the thing to do at this stage to weigh the hull, so I did. Hull alone is around 130 grams, or 5oz. With the deck, it’s about 230gms, or about 8oz.