The sanding of Peacemaker continues. We have one side done and ready for primer and have started on the other side. We are spackling the low spots and then long board sanding again. This process is then repeated until the boat is perfectly fair.
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| The areas circled in marker are low spots |
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| The low spots filled in |
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| Spackle Paste |
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| A really deep low spot |
It was really cool to watch the puzzle piece disappear as we sand.
We have finally got the first keel fin back from the machine shop. It will be installed on the leading edge of the blade of the keel. The original material was removed to save weight.
On Monday I traveled to North Shore Composites in Bristol, Rhode Island. North Shore Composites is building the new rudder for Desperado. I dropped off the bearing sleeves, picked up some pre-preg carbon, and checked out the molds for the new rudder (sorry, no pictures). North Shore Composites has a lot of cool equipment that we do not have access to. They have a 5 axis CNC machine and mostly importantly, an autoclave big enough to fit our new rudder. Desperado is the last boat Leo and Vlad modified and Webb's current offshore sailing boat. Unfortunately, Desperado's rudder broke off this fall, so a new rudder is needed. I want to thanks my fellow Webbies living in Newport for putting me up for night.
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| North Shore Composites |
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| Desperado, rudder still attached |
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| Who let six college rent their house? |
Finally, we finished laminating the rear stanchion.
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| Leo is very excited to be done climbing around of Peacemaker |
On the weekend, I traveled to Philadelphia to visit another Webbie, Muriel Weathers '19, who is working at Philly Shipyard. We went to the Philadelphia car show and visited to the Liberty Bell.
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| Star Wars Car |
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