Sometimes it seems that nothing is being done. Sometimes its because nothing is being done. I think this time is a mix of both. Three weeks since the last post update, and for one of those weeks I was away in Melbourne seeing my family for the first time in a long time. Also taking […]
After the successful nose job last month I finally got my hips reduced. Turned out to be a bit bigger job than I had hoped, at least with the port hip, but now its done I am quite pleased. And with the rear steps final shape created, the hips not only became more visible but […]
When the nose cones were first shaped I ran out of foam. And I was desperately broke (still broke just not desperately any more), so could not buy more. I even made a ply box to go inside the foam nose to stretch the foam I had go just a little further. I ended up […]
I think I have just about used all of the plays on the word step for post title so no more step right up or step in the right direction. The boat is nearly completely closed. What that means is that the core will soon be completely enclosed by glass or filler everywhere on the […]
Easter weekend and it has finally cooled. It has rained all weekend which would probably suck if the boat was finished but is great boat building weather. There is nothing else to distract you to do other things that nice weather creates and my shed is dry. Dusty, but dry. In a shed there is […]
The davits, which I made a few years ago are finally glued and glassed into the boat. And the boat has its long awaited bath. Its glued in and glassed where it can be (under the overhang against the walls of the gas tank wells). The outboard hatches doors are fitted and a little of […]
I have had both knees operated on during the time I have been building but for now at least I dont need hip replacements. But the boat has hips that will need to be faired out. More on that later in this post. After cutting out the engine doors from the rear steps last week, […]
I have waited a long long time to sit on the back steps of my boat and watch the world go by. I cant watch the world go by just yet, but I can sit down on my back steps. I have moved on to do the roof and the sheet points, all the while […]
Steel sheds have a fatal flaw for boat building in our ever warming climate. They trap heat, no amount of whirly birds on the roof can dissipate the heat fast enough, and the elevated position of the boat is such that the higher up on the boat I am working the hotter it is. As […]
Just when you thought you might be through cutting holes in the boat. And just when you thought there was nothing else to add to the structure…well not really, I have known about having to make sheeting points and a radar mount for some time. And having faired the roof to the second highbuild stage […]
