We had a fantastic week off at the snow, our best snow holiday yet and Jo loved it, and snow boarded the best she has ever gone even attempting some jumps and rails in the terrain park. I spent most of the week in the terrain park doing jumps too, it was great fun. We […]
We leave on a weeks holiday tomorrow, and I have all of the soles in place. They are just dry fitted sitting in place. They make getting in and out of the hulls so much easier. I still have plumbing and electrical wiring conduits to fit under the soles and tanks and through hulls so […]
There are many jobs on the build that don’t look like they are going to take long but end up taking hours. It took me all of 6 hours today to cove and tape the starboard webs and to fit, glue and tape most of the port saloon web. I can see why the fit […]
I worked all day today but had a minor mishap that cost me an hour or so. I have finished the first of 2 200 litre drums of resin and was in the process of switching drums when I dropped a 20 litre drum of hardener with the lid off, losing about 5 litres of […]
With the Port bedroom and wardrobe webs in, glued and glassed and the soles sitting dry in place, I started on the same 2 compartments in the starboard hull. These proved much easier to fit as I had pre glassed the hull floors, so all I needed to do was score (sand) the glass to […]
Today I had a fairly good day, putting in 6 hours and daydreaming for another hour or so. I started on the main bedroom (port) web. I dry fitted it and trimmed where needed. The fore/aft needed about 10mm taken off and the corners rounded and only one of the 4 cross web parts needed […]
During the week I got the rest of the furniture panels glued. The plans have pictures of the panels so you can see exactly how they should look glued together and the numbers of each panel. It is advisable to number the panels whilst they are still in one piece as once you release the […]
Now that the unis are all down, I have started gluing the furniture panels together. Within these 13mm panels are the hull webs and soles. They are the parts I need next. Before the soles are glued in I have to lay any pipes or wiring and any tanks so I will probably leave the […]
The bottom half of the boat is now pretty much completed, save for fittings and through hulls etc, rudders, daggers and the nose cones. Now that much of the work will be inside the boat, I will need to make a decent set of stairs so that getting in and out of the boat or […]
