The weather is warming again and it is still very humid. But not as hot as it has been and bearable, however it was still warm enough to mean I had to hustle to get the taping done before the resin went off. I decided
It is amazing how time consuming some jobs are. They don’t look like much but they take hours. Today I worked for 6 hours on gluing down the seat front and starting on the coving and taping. Before I started on
I did not quite have enough time to glue the seat front down today, but I did sand the bog back down on the kerf glass and generally clean up the panel and bridgedeck ready for gluing. The panel is very easy to work on
Unfortunately I did not get anything done on the boat this weekend, but I did manage to get the kerfs glued and glassed today. I also gave the outside ones a light coat of bog to fill the grain of the glass and to fair
I did not have much time to work on the boat today, nor could I do much with the little time I had, not on the cockpit seating anyway. The next part of this job will take the best part of a day, that is gluing the now
I quickly re-measured where I wanted the helm island to finish, so that rather than being a complete island, it is now going to be more a raised helm box. I will place a half height step up into the helm position to
The starboard seating is going to be much different to the port side. The helm requires a different arrangement and there is no need for a table on both sides. The helm position needs to be raised so that you have
Today was a good day to work on a boat. Cooler, about 20 degrees C and raining most of the day. Raining does not make boat building any easier physically but when it is raining you at least don’t feel like you
I had already glued in the first seat frames to the back of bh6 last weekend. Today I kerfed the curved seat front wrap around. It starts at the main cabin door and wraps around the cockpit to the rear bulkhead, I will
I am keen to make the strip planked cabin top but there are a number of reasons I should wait. First it is much easier to make the cabin top if I have more space and in a few months the other boat will be out so i will