This is a big moment in our TotalBoat Sport Dory build, it's time to lay up our carbon fiber bottom. We have already made sure everything fits together, our second layer of bottom and our outer two layers of garboard plank. The first thing for us to do is cut our 5.8 oz plain weave carbon fiber. We're just going to do that on a small table with a pair of very sharp scissors, being very careful to roll the carbon fiber out as we cut it and not pull it on the table as that can disturb the weave. Once we have our piece it's time to mix up our TotalBoat 2:1 Epoxy and apply it to our Dory. We spread the glue with a plastic spreader until the surface is completely covered, we can leave some extra glue on the surface as it will soak up into our carbon fiber. Next we're gonna carry our carbon into place and roll it out the length of the boat and use our same spreaders to get it to lay down flush and soak up the epoxy. Adding more epoxy until the cloth is sufficiently saturated we then pull the tape and re-tape on the seam for the broadstrake. Then Joe is going to mix up some thickened epoxy and we're going to spread that onto the second bottom layer and both garboard planks and bring them over and place them into position on the boat. We still have our nail holes from before that tell us exactly where each piece goes. The final step is to apply larger clamps with wooden blocks and little wedges all along the garboards, this will pull the planks down at the top and at the bottom edge and also pull down the second layer of bottom beneath them giving us a strong tight bond between all our materials.
