I got some great advise today from another boat builder that I have mentioned on site. Judy from Scrumble had seen on the site what I am doing and had a great method for applying the filler to the joins. On Scrumble
I had some help today from Jo and her wealth of boatbuilding experience. She doesn’t actually have any but from the quality of her work you would swear that she does. We filled the chamfer panel gap together and
I didn’t get much done today, I started late and finished early! I did get the rest of the outboard joins of the port hull filled, including removing the fairing tabs and filling the voids left behind them. Well
Back on the boat today and I managed to get a fair bit done. First of all I remembered something I had read a few times on other builders sites, that is not to get lazy because the end result is in direct proportion to
Another easy day. I managed to get all of the trimming tabs onto the inboard side of the hull and started to mask some of the bigger gaps. I have just taped the inside of some of the joins with packing tape to stop the
An easy afternoon (its still hot, not as hot as it is for Tom on Scrumble in Darwin! but hot nonetheless) only did 3 hours work and only trimmed the panels to each other on the outboard side of the hull. I think it
Brett mentioned that the chamfer panel, when unscrewed would retain a memory of the shape it needed to bend back to and I was relieved to find out today that as predicted, the chamfer panel screwed back into place (at
I only got a little done today, I have now glued all the panels including the rear half of the chamfer and also started filling some of the larger gaps with strips cut from off-cut Duflex. I will hopefully get the front
Over the last couple of days I have managed a couple of hours here and there. I have glassed the inside of the last panel that I didn’t get to do last week because of the rush to get the panels on yada, yada, but
After a leisurely morning showing the boat (I am starting to refer to it as a boat now!) to some prospective boat builders in my area, I spent my Sunday afternoon unscrewing what I have called the bilgeboards from the
