Fairing the Keel

Once the boat was back on the trailer, it was time to start fairing the hull to get it as smooth as possible.  It started with James helping us fair the keel, which was really in pretty bad shape.  We used an angle grinder with a wire brush to take off all the epoxy and paint that was loose.  Then we ground down all edges.  After that, James used the QuickFair to build it back up and shaped the keel to optimal/class legal shape using the proper keel templates.  Needless to say, it really turned out well - and I am sure it will be extremely fast.  He also made sure that the keel was optimally located (I think as far aft as possible).  You can get a sense for how bad it  was from the pictures below, and how much better it looks now.

The photo above is from before ....

Below is the photo of the keep after ....   Much improved!  He also worked on the rudder and got it faired as well.