CLK Yacht Crafters 3

mold plug for fiberglass boat
Battens presumbly being used to check the fairness of the plug.
mold plug for fiberglass boat
Jim Burba standing on keel of Aquila plug.
Matthew Dick boatbuilding
M. Dick (L) and Griz near rudder fin of Aquila plug.
installing flange on plug for fiberglass boat
Jim Burba (L) and Chuck Knapp adding a midline flange to the sanded Aquila plug. The flange created on each half of the mold will allow the two mold halves to be joined to lay up a hull. A box arond the keel will provide flanges to allow alternative keels to be used, or the keel to be laid up separately.
flange on plug for fiberglass boat
View of the midline flange.
flange on plug for fiberglass boat
Flange around the rudder fin.
laying up mold for fiberglass boat
Construction of the Aquila mold is underway. Here, workers are adding an internal layer of flexible balsa core to the mold, with several layers of the mold already laid down. The core will help stiffen the mold but is lighter than fiberglass.
CLK Yacht Crafters boatyard
Construction of the Aquila mold is underway. Here Lyle, the fiberglass specialist, is covering one half the completed mold, for a reason I no longer recall.
Though the transom appears too wide in this view, this must be the mold for Aquila, with the inside surface undergoing polishing. I took this photo around March 1979, after I had stopped working at CLK Yacht Crafters.
CLK Yacht Crafters finishing two gillnetter hulls to bring in some money for continued work on Aquila. The discarded plug for Aquila is seen in the background, outside the shop door.

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