OK...all done! We finally found a process that works pretty fast. We line the graphic up on the hull and temporarily tape in place. We made a tape hinge in the middle (as we did yesterday) to help guide the alignment. Instead of trying to peel back half of the graphic and lay it on the hull in one go, we rolled back the liner material about three feet back from the bow. We then stuck the bow and used the roll of material as a spacer to keep the sticky side off the hull until we pressed it in place. One person just kept rolling the roll down the hull while I pressed the film in place. I had a third pair of hands holding some vertical tension on the film as I pressed it but I think I can handle that while I press on my own. It goes pretty fast this way. Once it's applied to the flatter part of the hull we just started working down and up around the hull lifting, tensioning, and pressing into place. We had the bulk of it on the hull in 45 minutes and should be able to get even faster next time. All hands were on deck so I didn't get many photos of the rolled liner technique.

I then trimmed the edges with a razor blade and used an old batten to make a straightedge on the bottom of the hull. I finished the edges that will be directly exposed to water with a very thin 1/2" wide 3M edge-sealing tape made for sealing boat wraps. It then applied a coat of a polymer wax and then a carnuba wax to make it slickery.



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