J/30 Class Association Forums J/30 Forum The Boat, Sails and Equipment Core Help!

Jason & John - for areas where you need to recore from the outside, can you cut out sections of the outer skin with a dremel tool or router and pull the skin off? Once the skin is off, then is it possible to recore and reuse the cleaned up skin sections to minimize the amount of fairing you have to do? How do you get the original hull form and keep it symmetrical port / stbd?

On removing the sole - how do you do this so it can be reused with minimum damage?

I'm so close to getting in the water and the bottom looks awesome after spraying VC Offshore last night. I started wet sanding tonight. What a bummer if I need to rip open this baby next fall.....