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# Second Keel Fillets in the Heat
- URL: https://seanation.org/second-keel-fillets-in-the-heat/
- Published: 2022-07-18T09:53:51.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-06T14:27:54.000Z
- Description: I’m pressing on with the second layer of keel fillets, despite the workshop reaching 29.5°C before mid-morning. I’m also glassing the panel joints from inside and making hard plastic spatulas that cannot be broken by reaching too far.
- Author: Monika Matis
- Tags: Ikaroa, Tech, #story-ikaroa, #facebook-import

Ok, it is not that I’m giving up and not working at all in this heat and that’s why there are no updates.

I’m working, but I cannot distract myself with photography and filming as I’m on a very tight schedule - starting 5.30am, after only half a cup of coffee (we are talking seriously dangerous territory here, I’m not really functioning properly without half a jug of coffee!) and working as long as I can before it gets too hot in the workshop. Today it was barely 9 am - and now, 10.30 am we have 29.5 degrees Celsius in the workshop.

And besides, I don’t know how many photos of fillets you can take. And since I’m on my second run over the keels there will be quite a lot of them still!

As mentioned, I’m going with second layer by the keels - for those not familiar with Tikis, I put a photo of a drawing describing the keel fillets.

I have made few hard plastic spatulas (out of standard spatulas I have been using on previous stages of my work) and they perform flawlessly. I have also purchased a set of wooden fillet spatulas from Fyne boats, but used them mainly as a template for mine (don’t take me wrong - they are perfect to use and I have used wooden spatulas before, if you wipe resin mix off them with a rug as soon as you finish you can reuse them for a very long time!) as I don’t trust myself to wipe them religiously EVERY SINGLE TIME - and that’s what it takes for them to reuse them freely - and what’s more important, I’m afraid I could break one when reaching out far with it. I cannot really break the plastic one and they can have resin left on safely (I prefer to wipe them clean but not always remember to do so!)

So it is only this boring stuff - well, also some small extra jobs I’m doing in meantime. Like glassing over the panel connections on inside.

I had plywood pieces supporting the joints between panels from inside; now that the hull is glassed and turned over I can safely take them off but I prefer to have them glassed from both sides so I’m slowly cleaning the joints and putting a couple of layers of glass on them to have them glassed all the way from the keel to the edge of the panel.

It may not be necessary but it makes me feel much better for some reason 😜

#allelectricboat #buildingwharram #theseanation #tiki38

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