On odd days we would go out and do some trimming of the foam with breadknives. It's a lot of cutting when things are overdone depth-wise. Especially in corners. It's not perfectly even, but definately thick enough.
We have probably spent close to $2500 on foaming the forward half of the boat thus far.

Today I let Gena continue cutting foam and I got ambitious with the grinders smoothing some outside welds....carefully!

Yes, we made a booboo. During our rush to prepare for the foaming, we somehow forgot to smooth the outside hull welds down. They now must be done with extra care so as not to heat the inside to the point that the coaltar coating inside under the foam cooks off.

The temperature outside was about -10° so the steel was nice and cold. An occasional spit test verified that things weren't getting too hot.

Above the waterline, the welds are smoothed over and fined in with a huge 7" blade ( pretty gyroscopic that!) while below the waterline welds are rounded smoothly but not removed. This is for extra strength.

We tossed around the idea of flattenning down these welds also but chose not to. Besides, I'm sure the fish won't mind!