I know it's been a while since the last update. The weather finally got out of the winter funk and into the spring thaw a few weeks ago, but I took a little longer to get up and at 'em. I have made some progress, nonetheless, with the fourth float now coming together in the mold. I added the first layer of carbon fiber to the interior bottom today. I also glued the transverse gussets into beam three (on top in the stack as seen in the photo). Not much new to show you, once you see the first couple of beams being constructed, it gets kinda redundant. Once I get beam four to the same stage as the first three we can finally move on to new stuff.
I had to get the table saw out to cut some additional foam filets for beam four, so while doing that I decided to cut a set of blocks out of hardwood. These are installed inside the beams to provide strength where a bolt will tie the beams to the main hull. In particular, these will prevent the ends of the beam from getting crushed by the loads at the attachment point.
Just to illustrate where these pieces will be installed, here is one in the port aft beam (beam three) on the ledge of the inner (main hull) end of the beam. It will eventually be trimmed to fit snugly, then bedded in putty and taped in place with glass and epoxy. So a little something new to show you … yippee!
