I spoke to soon, the temperature was about 10 degrees cooler today, perfect for gluing the planks to each other, as luck would have it work came in and I didn’t have much time to work on the boat today. I only had about 1 spare hour so I used it to core out the […]
The starboard planks are on the boat. I still have to trim some of the planks at the stern and finish shaping it, then I have to level the planks to each other, which I should get done tomorrow. Then I can glue them on Thursday and Friday afternoons, sand the glued planks on Saturday […]
I made up for a little lost time yesterday even though I only put in 2 hours today. I have now got most of the planks on, and should be able to get the rest on tomorrow. Then I can start on levelling the planks and gluing them to each other. I am doing a […]
Today was a most frustrating day. It was hot and the going was slow. Do you ever have days where you seem to be working hard but have little or nothing to show for it at the end of the day? Today was one of those days and little things slowed me down all day, […]
I noticed today that I have some blisters in the internal glassing of the strip planked section. This is because the panel had opened up whilst only the outside was glassed and was upside down for the internal glassing, and when closed up on the boat this pushed the glass together and created blisters. I […]
After getting the sanding of the inside of the panel done yesterday, today I filled the remaining gaps in the panels that I had not already filled. I decided not to bother filling the plank gaps from the inside of the boat as I originally glued them as I felt I could better achieve it […]
I have not done much work (well almost none actually) since last week. On Thursday I had some visitors that were on their way to the Muster drop in to see my build for themselves. Max (and Elvie) had visited before, Stefan and his father Gilbert are building a 1320 but have not started on […]
Remember me? I’m the other half of the boat building team…the one who consistently brings home the bacon to pay for the dream. I have been in hiding for a very long time because I have been harbouring a secret from my in-laws. Paul’s family live in Melbourne, so between working and boat building, we […]
I am deliberately posting a lot of pictures and description of this section of the build because most new builders find it a daunting prospect, but I have found it should not be so worried about. It is a fairly easy job. Not physically or mentally challenging and can easily be done single handed. I […]
I have figured out how to fill the last section of the planking. Kerfing! I had been scratching my head trying to figure out how to get the shape I need in the planking whilst filling in the gap in the planking and it finally occurred to me that kerfing was the answer. So I […]
