Cutting the Hull Sides

As was previously mentioned, the strakes looked really clean when I first put them down as bare foam (below)

 And they looked pretty good with glass on them too (below). But after I started griunding, I had to take them back to foam completely because of the voids.

So, after they were ground down, I reglassed with two layers of a lighter fiberglass that formed around them much more easily. I put down fillets of cabosil on either side as well in order to ensure there'd be no voids this time. I'm over grinding those things out!

There were some minor air pockets right at the chines in the aft section. Just to be sure I went ahead and ground those voids out, and also ground back a layer about two inches wide on either side of the chine in hopes that it won't cause me too much trouble come fairing time.

Once the boat was flipped Beau and I used a laser tool to line up the hull sides so that we could cut off the top couple inches to straighten everything out. Here's Beau taping off the transom. We left a 4 inch tab on the back so the outboard can sit higher on the transom.

I cut off the excess with a circular saw. It was a little scary taking a power saw to something that so much time went into.

Here she is after the hull sides were cut.