Pococks need new bows!

A couple of the pocock eights are still missing their bows after a rough fall with crew league. Both were broken off relatively close to the tip and it was simpler to build a new bow on to the hull, rather than try to mold such a small part and bond it on later.

I started by stacking some thick closed cell core and epoxying between each layer, to build a block bigger than the missing bow. This was roughly shaped, then glued onto the hull and shaped by hand to match the original bow.

Here is the foam bow attached to the hull, you can still see the epoxy between the layers of foam. The keel line is not actually correct, the pococks have a shorter bow with a noticable kick up in the final couple inches, but I was trying to keep things simple.

Since the outer skin was going to be the entire structure of the bow now, i prepped a big section of the hull to bond to. The Foam is just there to set the shape, it provides minimal strength to the final repair.

The foam bow is wrapped in wet fiberglass, and then tightly wrapped with bleeder and packing tape to compress the layers.
The boards and clamps give extra pressure to help the layers bond to each other and to the hull.