The Mold’s Here!

Bobby contacted the foam company to order a laser-printed, styrofoam, female mold. The company used the CAD drawing exported from the FreeShip model of the final hull design to cut the shape into several blocks of styrofoam. The turnaround time for the mold, once ordered, was 2 weeks to make the mold in Ohio and 2 days to ship it to TCNJ. Bobby and Jeremy picked up the mold in the Decker Mail Room on February 27th. The mold came in two wrapped bulks as seen below.

The packaged three-piece female mold along with another cut away for display during the competition

With the help of a TCNJ maintenance worker, we loaded the mold into a TCNJ van and made two trips to deliver it all to STEM where the canoe will be constructed. The mold was unpackaged there and was reconfigured to the actual shape as shown below

Three sections of the mold placed together to make the final shape of the canoe

The team is eager to start the construction process and begin mixing the final concrete design