Wednesday, May 2, 2012

A bad start after a nice vacation break!

Returning from a nice Spring break in Hawaii, I got back to my canopy fiber work, sanding and filling and sanding etc... Then came the trimming time and here is the result:

Left side looks fine, the cavity behind the front arm is well closed:



Right side is bungled, there is a gap, oh nooooo! :



Warning for other builders: my mistake was to trust the trimming template provided by VANs. Not that there is anything wrong with it (as Seinfeld would say) but you have to be careful in the positioning of the template. I was off 1/8 of an inch vertical and horizontal. I will need help to make the repair (as I did for the initial fiber layout) but it's doable as fiber is easy to repair... with time and patience.
I believe that VANs is a bit light on instructions concerning fiber work and they could have warned about this potential pitfall.

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