I still have a little waiting left to do before I got ahead and get them installed. I'm still waiting on getting my fiberglass and Resin. I also still need to decided whether or not to go get a cheap router from Harbor Freight. I'm leaning towards just getting it. It'll make installing the fin box a lot easier. Plus it will make shaping Kayleah's bored a lot easier too. Either way, I've still got a little while left to install these guys.
This little bit of time gave me an idea though. I figured I'd try my hand at shaping and glassing my own fin. I don't really know how it will come out. I didn't look online as to whether or not you can even make one of of glassed EPS. I'll probably look here later this morning. If I can't really do it that way, then It was just good practice for a wood one I shape later on.
What I did to shape it was pretty easy, it only took like 30 mins. I traced out the outline of the fin that I just got onto a scrap piece of EPS. Did a rough cut out of the shape. It was far to thick so I cut it in half and sanded it down to it was even all over. From here I drew a line down the middle of the edges and a curved line following the contour of the ark already there. Once my guides were all there, I started shaping in the foil and smoothing it out. I think it looks pretty good:
That's about all for today. Hopefully I get the fiberglass in here soon. That's the only thing holding me up at this point.
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