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And the latest task
has me installing the transom cap. Warthog has cautioned me a couple times that
I was making the cap too narrow but I've assured him that I wasn't.
This is where I get to eat a little crow. Bobby, you were right.
Well, you were partially right but for a different reason than what you've been
cautioning me about. At any rate, I had to widen it just a "scosh". I had to do
this for one main reason and it all came down to basic geometry. My molded cap
has a small lip on the aft side that turns down. I built that into the mold to
match the shoebox lip on the corner boxes (where the rub rail attaches). All in
all, it molded out exactly like I'd planned. It's just that my plan didn't take
in all considerations.
If the transom cap was perfectly flat between the two corner boxes, my cap
would've fit near perfectly. But when you consider that the center/crown of the
cap is higher, that also means that the center of the transom is higher.
And the transom has a 16 degree setback. So, the cap should actually bow outward
(to aft) to conform to the shape of the transom. Anyway, I overlooked that
detail and had to make an additonal mod to the cap. This should take care of the
problem nicely.
I also suspect that the part may have shrunk a little bit in the mold but don't
have any real way to know for sure.
Last night, I got the the inner seams in the corners glassed into place.
And I also built fillets of milled fiber and resin and added 3 overlapping layers of 1708 in the seam joining the corner boxes to the transom.
