New daggerboard

 After cracking and repairing Monkeys daggerboard thought I had better make a new one.

From the same 220mm cord mould I wet out 2 staggered plies of 400gsm cloth (T700 I think) and 1x 300ud laid this in the mould, added the pouring foam and clamped together.





The front edge was trimmed to mould and the trailing left long

Results are ok but there are a number of voids in the surface which is disappointing. These have been resin filled and the lot left to cure for a few days.

I also used the same technique on a new rudder mould, with a similar but better result. I think the next trial  I might go back to curing the skins first. Assembly was the issue when I trailed this in the past but I think using a lightweight surface ply  and allowing this to go past the trim lines maybe the answer. Previously I had trimmed the skins before assembly and this caused issues with skins moving/ not fitting together well.

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