Here are the twin skegs being glued in place. The wood block is to keep them exactly 14 inches apart, vertical, and parallel while the glue sets.
The glue has set. Next the skegs will be filleted and the eight strips of fiberglass fabric (two on each side of each skeg) shown will be used to help hold them in place.
This shows one of the finished fillets. After the fillets gel (about 3 hours), the fabric strips will be adhered to them and more clear epoxy added.
Fiberglass strips epoxied in. It's hard to see but they go up the sides of the skegs. There are double strips on each side. I don't think anything is going to knock one of these skegs off.
And the final coat of epoxy has been added to the hull bottom and the skegs.
Another shot from the bow end.
Tomorrow I start light sanding of the entire paddle board. I hope to have that finished and begin varnishing on Tuesday. As I said, the epoxy is supposed to be UV protected, but John Harris at CLC says he has seen UV protected epoxies come and go without success--he hopes this one will be the one that works, but it is too early to tell. So I'm going to varnish it for more protection, and I also think I can get a little smoother finish that way. I leave for California Wednesday, and stay for about a week. My hope was to get this thing in the water before then, but it's not going to happen.
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