Before I got serious about prepping the boat for a day out on the water, I spent about 45 minutes in the shop pulling peel ply off the cured layups on the top halves of both the left and right winglet intersection fairings.
I then cleaned up all the peel ply boogers left from the peel ply edges & seams.
Cleaned up the edges of the layups at the transition of new glass to old glass.
I also razor trimmed and sanded the inboard “TE” of the fairings.
And sanded the very aft curved trailing edge to clean up the glass and avoid any puncture wounds. I’ll trim to final length probably after the bottom side of the fairing is finished (I’ll assess).
I also sanded down the top of the vertical “wall” that rests against the rudder to remove any spikes and potential finger pokers, on both sides of course. I’ll trim the edges of these inboard “walls” to the same height on both sides within the next day or two.
And that was the extent of my airplane building today. Again, I am very pleased with the way these winglet fairings turned out. Of course building two separate components like this about 25′ apart means that there will be minor variances, and there are… but I’d say that they match each other by over 95%.
Tomorrow I’ll jump back on the build!