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No: 034 | Date: 2003-10-15 | Southamerica, Brasil, Niteroi - Rio de Janeiro

A closeup on our fiberglas specialists who worked day and night to get the job done.



No. of Image: 1
Description: Daniel is covering every single open space with newspaper as fiberglass dust will enter everywhere.
Photo by: Florian Wilken
   
File-Dimensions: 600x450
Filesize: 72 Kb

No. of Image: 2
Description: Sebastian and Daniel gave the WILDLIFE interior a new black layer to protect it from the thin powder of the sanding jobs to come.
Photo by: Daniel Michahelles
   
File-Dimensions: 300x400
Filesize: 45 Kb

No. of Image: 3
Description: The most vulnerable parts are covered with newspaper from top to bottom.
Photo by: Daniel Michahelles
   
File-Dimensions: 600x450
Filesize: 64 Kb

No. of Image: 4
Description: Our fiberglass specialists Luis, Pablo, Valdeke and Gino are back on the boat who fortunately had time to help us out.
Photo by: Daniel Michahelles
   
File-Dimensions: 600x450
Filesize: 85 Kb

No. of Image: 5
Description: A very precise sanding and cutting job had to be done to retrieve the broken part of each bulkhead.
Photo by: Daniel Michahelles
   
File-Dimensions: 300x400
Filesize: 39 Kb

No. of Image: 6
Description: Even our make-shift vacuum cleaner could not prevent the miniscule fiberglass dust from invading every nook and crany of our boat.
Photo by: Daniel Michahelles
   
File-Dimensions: 300x400
Filesize: 35 Kb

No. of Image: 7
Description: Several different layers of fiberglass and kevlar are needed to reinforce the bulkhead of each hull.
Photo by: Daniel Michahelles
   
File-Dimensions: 600x450
Filesize: 76 Kb

No. of Image: 8
Description: For 3 days our specialists worked in a tiny space which can be seen in the middle of all the plastic where the bulkhead part is missing.
Photo by: Daniel Michahelles
   
File-Dimensions: 600x450
Filesize: 74 Kb

No. of Image: 9
Description: A simple lamp constructions served to speed up the drying process of the several epoxy layers on the fiberglass.
Photo by: Daniel Michahelles
   
File-Dimensions: 600x450
Filesize: 68 Kb

No. of Image: 10
Description: The intense drying process of the replaced bulkhead and the supporting fiberglass layers.
Photo by: Daniel Michahelles
   
File-Dimensions: 600x450
Filesize: 60 Kb

No. of Image: 11
Description: Our cockpit turned into a construction site for 3 days covered with dangerous chemicals, fiberglass, divinicel and boat paint.
Photo by: Daniel Michahelels
   
File-Dimensions: 600x450
Filesize: 75 Kb

No. of Image: 12
Description: "A few more weak spots (damaged through an osmotic process) on the outside hulls had to be repaired before adding the ""antifouling"" layer."
Photo by: JF Thye
   
File-Dimensions: 600x450
Filesize: 60 Kb

No. of Image: 13
Description: Florian and Sebastian are very happy about the careful attention from Gino to the damaged areas on the hulls
Photo by: JF Thye
   
File-Dimensions: 600x450
Filesize: 86 Kb

No. of Image: 14
Description: "Gino just added the final gel code layer to finish the fiberglass job on the ""in"" and ""outside""!"
Photo by: JF Thye
   
File-Dimensions: 300x400
Filesize: 42 Kb

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