I did a little more work on dingy 2 today. I have trimmed the panels to size and have rounded the sharp edges off them ready for taping. But before I do the external taping I will finish the internal coving and taping

Jo and I spent the weekend in Sydney loosely around the Orange County Choppers show on Saturday night. Before we went to that I spent an hour cutting the chines and kerfing them ready to glue on Sunday afternoon.

I only managed an hour today so it was only enough time to cut, kerf and fit (and glue on) the bows of the hull side panels. With these glued on the next step is the cosmetic chamfer panels. Once they are glued on the

As I run out of offcuts big enough to make full size parts I have to make smaller parts that can be glued together. On the hull sides I have cut separate bow panels and side panels. We glued the sides on today and I

It was another warmish weekend so I only managed a few hours each day. Yesterday I needed to glue panels together so until they set I couldn’t proceed anyway and today I attached them so again that was it for the

I managed another 3 hours this afternoon on the second dingy. I attached (glued) the internal bulkhead and the forward bulkhead. So now all that needs to be done is to attach the various hull panels. To fit the forward

Today we started to assemble the second dingy. Most of the parts are either already cut or we know the dimensions we have to cut to so the cutting wont take long. Before I get to the second dingy I want to report on the

My website has been down again recently, sorry about that. I am losing patience with the budget server. It seems to be down once a month! They always acknowledge the outage but it happens so often. I went a year with

Whilst I have been in Melbourne (on business not to avoid fairing!) Warren has been fairing the dingy. It looks great and is ready to paint. Warren has even gone to the trouble of scalloping in the anchor locker. Warren