#vacuum bagging

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De-Watering the Key West 1900 CC

A vacuum pump comes in handy to see if there is any water intrusion in this 20 year old hull.

Last time I talked about weighing the boat to determine if it had gotten water in the foam core.  I was pretty sure it wasn’t an issue, but then an opportunity presented itself to make sure.  So this is how I did it.

In the process of cleaning and de-greasing the bilge, I took out the auxiliary oil tank…

For a three year stint I worked for a high-end custom yacht building company in Seattle. The smallest yacht they build is 130′ and the largest one I worked on in my time there was 240′. During those three years we launched three yachts and I moved on while in the beginning stages of a forth.

It is an incredible operation with shipwrights/marine carpenters (that was my job), plumbers,…

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Some of the wide range of products that are offered and covered by the company include environmentally friendly adhesives, multipurpose adhesives, specialty adhesives, high strength adhesives, adhesive removers and much more. Among all the options it is vacuum infusion technique that is latest and in demand among the customers, as vacuum bagging is the process where vacuum is used for mixing resin and the laminate. All the materials are loaded into mold and these materials include fabrics and other production materials along with inserts and ribs as well.

Once the process of adding all the dry material to the mold is over it is sealed and packed making use of a counter mold or a vacuum bag. While going through the website you can get to know about the whole process and the equipments used for the process that include vacuum pumps, vacuum bagging items and production equipments. There are several advantages of using this infusion process as compared to other processes.