Fuel Tank Shape - Lesson Learned

[76SeaRay]

I am not home right now otherwise I would take a picture. After setting the tank in place to squish the peanut butter out, I found that the front corners actually sit down directly on the hull. The slope was such that the front strips of neoprene were about an inch in too far to pad under the corners. I think the best thing to do is to get all four corners set on "footings" that keep the outside edges of the tank from resting directly on the hull then run a straight edge front to back to set the level of the other pad footings.

 

[76SeaRay]

I haven't found any thick neoprene that I could bandsaw wedges from. A friend has some large cedar shims (basically cedar shakes) so they are large enough to trim into 4" x 8" and double stack them. to about 3/4" tall. Since I plan to glass over them I assume cedar would be ok to use essentially as core material for the hull landing pads. The neoprene pads on the bottom of the tank are 2" x 8" so making the hull landing pads 4" x 8" glassed in will better distribute the load from the neoprene pads.