Day Eleven 5-20-2021

 Skin

 Today was the big one! It was quite frustrating and long but today we got the skin on. We started by just getting it on and then we laced it up with the sail needles and imitation sinew in order to get it tight. Once tight we stapled the fabric into the out-wale about an inch and a half apart. We then wrapped one side around the end and stapled it and cut it with a sauter gun. After that we wrapped the other side and once again cut it and proceeded to cut all of the excess fabric with the sauter gun after undoing our lacing. We called it a day and went to have lunch before putting the two part urethane coating on.  I was in charge of mixing the batches while my dad rolled them on. After using all of the urethane and putting on five coats we were done for the day.




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