1979 Viking build

[LakeFever]

Funny how it goes you think your done then you find more things to fix. I discovered a couple more spots that had tiny cracks on top and once I dug into them they were full of air bubbles. All these seem to be from the original construction so when I think of all the comments regarding poor build quality on streams this is bringing a whole new light to that perspective for me. Anyways we are working through these and getting close in the damage repair aspect and we are definitely skinning this entire running surface with 1708 and csm before gel.

Regarding the quality of the hull the pad is quite a mess geometrically speaking where it transitions from v to flat it’s very asymmetrical. It looks to be made this way because the lip is absent on one side at the very front where the pad has a v and fades into the hull there is approx 2” more lip on one side than the other so I don’t think this is sag or distortion related the one side of the pad has noticeably more lip at the front and it runs longer out. I’m not sure if this is unique to mine or how they all are but from side to side the rise angle of the very front of the pad is also off by 5 degrees. This is quite significant it’s about a quarter inch of height difference at the outer edge of the pad you can see this by eye quite easily. This effect tapers back to about the middle of the pad where one side is slightly lower than the other. We are measuring and verifying through angle finders and laser and the plan is to use kitty hair to rough in the shape of the pad so it’s symmetrical and then cover it with csm. We will be faring the pad out completely before we lay the big sheet of mat down.

this was a surprise to us and I hope I explained this well enough I don’t know the tech terms. I’ll get pics soon. Anyone else have this pad issue on their streams?

[tnelsmn]

I never noticed that bad of stuff around the front of the pad on mine. The worst I noticed side to side was on the first chine and how for off that was.

[LakeFever]

I squared the chines they are perfect I am very pleased with the side/side symmetry of the hull. All the weirdness is in the pad but I wonder about this because the cap to hull was definitely not bonded true it was offset over half an inch. We corrected this during assembly. The weirdest thing with the pad is the lip or leading edge where the pad starts to lift off the hull is noticeably longer on one side than the other. Ah well we’ll fix er up true and fare

[VkingMike]

I'm going to look at mine and see as well, but likely will not touch it. Mine ran true and that area was rarely in the water lol.

[LakeFever]

Agree we did consider that it’s not in the water for much but this was the thought that brought me to true it up; if I’m at full song and I get blow out or some other unhappy event and the hull immediately lays down in the water this uneven side/side bias is going to rudder the boat off to one side causing??? Whatever that effect becomes I’d rather not find out. I’m going to give myself every little advantage I can with regards to the shape of the running surface.

speaking of which we are going to try and make a sharpening template for the edges of the pad and using parchment paper to press over kitty hair and csm hoping to set the edges sharp with less faring. We’re going to try something like this and see how it works out

[LakeFever]

Good news! The pads not so bad. It was repaired so long ago it looks like factory glass but it’s not. Once we started comparing the angles of the hull side to side I could see it was filled in not absent so it’s a hump of smooth fiberglass over it all that we are now simply faring back out and things are looking much better. Whew

knock on wood today is the last day for roughing in all the patch work and small glass lays and tomorrow we can start laying faring compound. We are going to fare it best we can before we lay the big sheets then final fare. Seems like this is taking forever

[LakeFever]

We have been sanding and sanding and sanding some more. We laid out our first skim of faring putty today to fill some pinholes. Aiming to lay the mat next week. We are making progress even though this is a painfully slow process. The little pink dots are pinholes filled with faring putty we skimmed the whole hull today

[LakeFever]

Today was the day. My back is aching this was a challenging lay but it came out great. 1708 capped with 1oz csm. We will be gel coating with wax to cure it so we can sand it then final fare and vinyl ester primer

[LakeFever]

The Mrs helped push us forward a bit tonight. She’s a good egg

[XstreamVking]

Looks real good! Some great glassing skills shown there.

[VkingMike]

Damn. This is looking great!

[LakeFever]

Thank you we appreciate that. I have to admit this lay was the first time I yelled during the entire build. There was a critical ten minutes there where I thought I may have to abort it was a huge challenge getting the mat to lay tight against both sides of the pad even though we did our best to shape and relax it before putting on resin. Fortunately a combination of my thumb and the finned roller managed to get it in tight. I was not going to settle for anything sub par in the pad area so the back up plan was to do this in three pieces instead of one but again thankfully we managed to pull it off.

[tnelsmn]

That turned out great! What an accomplishment, thats a big layup for one shot. This is certainly going to be a bullet proof hull!

[XstreamVking]

When you are runnin a bunch of glass, a little bit of yelling is expected.

[LakeFever]

When you are runnin a bunch of glass, a little bit of yelling is expected.

lol i can’t argue with that haha