As I said last month the work for a while now is going to be inside the boat. For a long while. I estimate I have various plumbing and wiring to take me a couple of months and then the furniture work starts. I am deliberately leaving the side decks and the front of the […]
The port forward soles glued and glassed in, the mast base glass in and the bulkhead glued and glassed back in and then during the week a layer of glass over the bulkhead joins each side and the bulkhead is back in and as strong as it was before. Now that is done is is […]
My goal on the weekend was to glass the mast back and get the cutaway bulkhead back in. I could not get the bulkhead cutaway back in on the wet glass so I got that done today. I keyed the glass each side of the bulkhead. I gave the bulkhead part a grind either side […]
Glassing the first layer of glass was fairly easy. It was layers 2, 3 and 4 that proved more difficult. Firstly I cut the pieces of glass to size, each one a 100mm shorter each way (length and width) than the one above. I then put a plastic sheet down on the bench to wet […]
The plans call for 4 layers of glass under the masts, and the masts are stepped, or at least their tube or post (in the end the designer opted for a male post for a female mast to rotate on) are stepped on the cabin sole. So the first task is to glue the soles […]
The bi rig plans have changed and now the masts are inboard. I have already moved the doors across to accommodate this. But now I have to cut away part of the bulkhead temporarily because I have to lay 3 layers of glass onto the sole and up the inside hull sides in one piece […]
The plans call for stiffening of hull from inside where ever there is not a web and sole (the web and sole performing the same task). In the bows I used 3 strips of 13mm duflex glued to each other and glued and glassed down along their balsa edge but in this case I have […]
Have you ever had a big job too do and it is so big you put off making a start? I started to feel that way late last month. There are just so many different tasks to complete on the internal fit out that I couldn’t get my mind around a plan of action and […]
I have been feeling a bit lost recently and that I was not getting anything done. I find that if I have goals and tasks pre planned am much more focussed. I have not been focussed this past month or so and as a result I have not achieved as much as I would have […]
The work for a while now is going to be inside the boat. I have some plumbing and wiring work to continue under the soles before I can glass them down and some furniture is starting to be roughed in. I have many months of this and I am hopping from 1 job to another […]
