Its official. I am too damn old for this! The underside of the hull extensions and bottom steps are bogged and sanded, and spot filled. Next step is another sand to take the excess bog from the spot fill and if there is no further spot filling needed, a coat of high build, another sand […]

Take 2. The site went down a short while (hours or minutes not sure) after I uploaded this post, then 2 days later when the site was finally available again, after showing all sorts of weird stuff including someone else’s blog, this post was gone. This is a complete rewrite of that blog, so if […]

If you have ever owned or built a boat, I am sure you have said that or words to that effect, many times. I say it this time because the boat is raised so high at the sterns it looks like its….buckin, not because its a buckin boat and all buckin boats make you feel […]

Actually, its Aprils fools day. Sorry. Fork lift pic will be explained in the next post which should follow later today or mañana.  

The section of boat aft of the last bulkhead, including my hull extensions are now sealed. Well, almost sealed. In the starboard hull there is a conduit with the underwater light power lead coming through and with some sealant in the end of that conduit around the wire, it is sealed. In the port hull, […]

Two down 3 to go, except the next 3 are actually one big one so 1 to go? But who’s counting? Before I can glass the top steps in I have a bit of work correcting them so that they wont fall apart on me. I have to remove the overhang (that was originally going […]

So the bottom steps are now all closed up, the buoyancy tanks below now sealed in and the hull extension profile is now complete. I am still to decide on the hull side profile, that is, will I leave the step extension as an obvious extension or will I extend the hull side profile to […]

There are not too many milestones left to tick off. Finally glassing the last piece of boat on, finally pushing a sanding board along and deciding it is ready for paint, painting, bolting everything back on, launch! And each of them more satisfying than the one before. I had a little one today that I […]

Slow going the past couple of weeks. I have been working lots of shifts which rob me of most of my available build time for very little return. I have gone from working few hours for good pay to working long hours for poor pay, but such is life. I am grateful to be employed […]