Making the plugs and then the moulds for the seats for the New Little Mai Class dinghy

Having made the plugs for the stern and bow seats, the coated the plugs with epoxy and rubbed them down and polished them

Then coated them with a mould release wax before coating them with the first of three coats of black gel coat

The three coats of black gel coat applied to both plugs  

After the plugs were coated in four layers of matting, the reinforcement plywood was fixed to the  plugs 

Then a further couple of layers of matting put over the top of the plugs