Here is the 6'x3' hull cut out of a 2" thick piece of foam
Next I had to glue on the outside skirt attach strips, here I was making sure that they would fit right and the weights are to make sure the foam was flat on the floor.
Here I am gluing on the strips, I screwed them into the foam with 3.5" drywall screws untill the epoxy dried.
Here are the skirt attach strips glued on. I didn't need to put the front stip on because the nose of the hovercraft is going to be an extended plow plane so the skirt will actually be attached to the nose, but the foam was worped a little bit and I had to put the stip on there to straigten it out a little.
Next I had to glue the 1/8" plywood onto the top of the hull. In this picture I was test fitting it. We can't get 1/8" plywood around here and I didn't want to order one sheet so I just used some 1/8" paneling, I put the side with the grooves in it down and sanded off the finish. Also I got this sheet of paneling for 1/2 price because it was damaged.
I didn't feel like vacuum bagging the plywood to the hull so I just pilled everything that was in our garage ontop of the hull, it would have been a lot easier to vacuum bag it LOL.
Here is the plywood glued to the hull.
Next I had to work on the bottom of the hull. These are the steps on the bottom of the hull that will make the plow plane and also where the inner skirt attach strips will go, they are made out of 1" foam. In this picture I was test fitting the 3 pieces.
Before I glued on the 1" foam to the buttom of the hull I wanted to cut the slit for the backside inner skirt strip with a router.
