The last uni rope, the big one on BH6 the saloon door bulkhead is done. I just have to remove the caps and the screws holding it down to be finished. I also glued the off cuts from BH5 back on. They are now ready for the strips or other panels to go onto them. […]
Today I did the uni ropes in bulkheads 4 and 5, leaving only bulkhead 6 the large saloon door bulkhead to do, probably tomorrow. Then I can start to do the strip planking. The capped section of the rear bulkhead has set and leaves a nice square top to glue to if needed or a […]
The first uni rope has been wet out and inserted into the trough. I started with the rear bulkhead (BH7) and I decided that rather than capping it, letting it set then gluing the pieces I cut off back on again later, I could just glue them on whilst filling the trench with glue. Which […]
Whilst I spent half the day at the warehouse today unfortunately work (on the computer) got in the way so I only spent an hour or so working on the boat. I actually got everything ready to wet out the first uni rope and I still had an hour or so but I decided I […]
I had a fairly easy day today, just preparing for a big day of rope wet out and inserting into the troughs later in the week when I have some help lifting the 7 meter rope. I will wet it out on the cutting bench on a plastic sheet and roll it into a rope […]
One of the hardest things to do on the build is to cut perfectly good bulkheads. Not physically difficult but emotionally. Of course this is all just in your mind, and I imagine drilling through hull holes will be equally difficult to do given that the idea of building the hulls so strong and then […]
The last of the hull construction is the strengthening uni ropes in the tops of the 4 spanning bulkheads, (I also still have a uni stack on the front of the front bulkhead to do) and then the external furniture which also acts as part of the bulkhead structural strength. From then on I have […]
Not much to report this weekend. I had a couple of interruptions to work time, we got a new couch delivered on Saturday and in the good tradition of delivery people I had to wait all day for them to turn up, which could have been anytime from 9 am until they eventually arrived at […]
I have just 2 sets of unis to go now, the 4 layers in front of BH4 and the back of BH7 over the duckboard. I only managed one side of bulkhead 7 today, 7 layers of 1000g uni and a layer of 457g double bias with the same to go. I only have 2 […]
I did not manage to get much meaningful work done during this week but it all helps. I sanded the bottoms of the hulls (keel panels) and then cleaned up inside the hulls ready for the next stage of laying down the floor webs and soles and keelsons. I was heading for a less than […]
