Holey Tubes

We have taken a hole saw to the bow (see above). The over lamiation shaping foam and ply are clearly shown. We played about with height of the exit and have gone for a slightly higher location than originally drawn... the first update to the plans required!

For the glass tube we literally wrapped around the spinnaker pole with a split plastic pipe as our spacer (which may act as our bearing material too) then packaging tape as a further spacer and release material. Was a bit of a bugger to release once the glass had gone off but we managed it by making good use of a couple of jubliee clips to squish each end of the plastic tube once we had removed the spinnaker pole which came out easily. Now to bond in.