Jo and I spent the weekend in Sydney loosely around the Orange County Choppers show on Saturday night. Before we went to that I spent an hour cutting the chines and kerfing them ready to glue on Sunday afternoon. Unfortunately it rained from around 7pm Saturday until we left around 9pm. Fortunately we had umbrellas. […]
I only managed an hour today so it was only enough time to cut, kerf and fit (and glue on) the bows of the hull side panels. With these glued on the next step is the cosmetic chamfer panels. Once they are glued on the joins are cleaned up (the oversize panels trimmed back with […]
As I run out of offcuts big enough to make full size parts I have to make smaller parts that can be glued together. On the hull sides I have cut separate bow panels and side panels. We glued the sides on today and I will then glue the bow sections on tomorrow. Whilst I […]
It was another warmish weekend so I only managed a few hours each day. Yesterday I needed to glue panels together so until they set I couldn’t proceed anyway and today I attached them so again that was it for the day. 3 hours yesterday 3 hours today, for a total of 12 hours so […]
I managed another 3 hours this afternoon on the second dingy. I attached (glued) the internal bulkhead and the forward bulkhead. So now all that needs to be done is to attach the various hull panels. To fit the forward bulkhead I had to cut the slot into the side panels and slide the bulkhead […]
Today we started to assemble the second dingy. Most of the parts are either already cut or we know the dimensions we have to cut to so the cutting wont take long. Before I get to the second dingy I want to report on the fun we had on the weekend. Warren invited Jo and […]
My website has been down again recently, sorry about that. I am losing patience with the budget server. It seems to be down once a month! They always acknowledge the outage but it happens so often. I went a year with the last provider without a day down, 3 months at 1/4 the price and […]
Whilst I have been in Melbourne (on business not to avoid fairing!) Warren has been fairing the dingy. It looks great and is ready to paint. Warren has even gone to the trouble of scalloping in the anchor locker. Warren is thinking he might paint his in camo colours. I think it would look awesome. […]
After the test on the weekend, we have an idea of the minor mods needed to get the hull to where we want. We noticed that the transom height was a little low for a short shaft motor so we will build that to the correct height. I have bought a long shaft so I […]
