Elmundo

Hi Rowerwet! I was so excited to find a build that met so many of my requirements (cheap, not too toxic, easy enough a kid can help, actually useful). Here’s a little tender my 10 year old and I build on Covid Lockdown. It can be filled to the gunwales with water and little boys, and still stays fairly stable and absolutely unsinkable.I used all you techniques, but couldn’t procure a Werner scoring tool, so used a heavy duty wire brush to score all the foam before gluing. The foam joints are quite strong, but I’ve had an issue with the skin debonding and the voids filling with water! The skin itself is tough as nails, I can barely cut it with a new utility knife, but it will not stay attached to the hull.Any experience with this? I’m considering injecting something under the skin in…

Hi Rowerwet! I was so excited to find a build that met so many of my requirements (cheap, not too toxic, easy enough a kid can help, actually useful). Here’s a little tender my 10 year old and I build on Covid Lockdown. It can be filled to the gunwales with water and little boys, and still stays fairly stable and absolutely unsinkable.I used all you techniques, but couldn’t procure a Werner scoring tool, so used a heavy duty wire brush to score all the foam before gluing. The foam joints are quite strong, but I’ve had an issue with the skin debonding and the voids filling with water! The skin itself is tough as nails, I can barely cut it with a new utility knife, but it will not stay attached to the hull.Any experience with this? I’m considering injecting something under the skin into the voids, but I’m concerned I’ll end up peeling the whole thing and starting over. I had trouble getting the canvas to stick (it wasn’t coated, just plain fiber) and had to “wet” the outside with Titebond II similar to a “real fiberglass” lay-up to get it to stay put. Paint went on after the glue dried.any ideas on how to proceed? I’m 90 % done with my second build, a small pontoon boat using the same techniques and don’t want to put it in the water until I figure this issue out.Thanks for the help!