Finally managed to peel the laptop away from Paul so I can add to my log! We have been lucky enough to have another small sail on a catamaran. We are now up to about 5 times ever on a cat! So far we still like it… and last time I looked we are still […]
I left Waz at around 1pm with the dingy on the back of the ute. The plan was that Warren was going to do a little more work to the boat that afternoon and tomorrow we would test it. At around 8pm we were watching tv and heard a boat go screaming by. Jo said, […]
Today we taped the internal bulkhead tapes. Just a lazy 2 hours each on the boat today. We coved and taped the about half of all of the internal joins. All the bulkhead to hull tapes. We still have to do the hull plank tapes but will do that tomorrow after we have water tested […]
Today Warren sanded the tapes on the dingy hull and we then gave the underside of the hull a coat of resin to seal it. We then cut the forward bulkhead, cut the slots in the hull for it and fitted it to the hull and glued it in. The resin coat was applied by […]
Today I taped all of the external hull panel joins. I sanded the sharp edges off the joins and rounded them, coved the right angle of the bridgedeck to hull joins and taped them all, using my usual method of wetting out the tapes on a flat bench with a paint brush and squeegee and […]
This month I will finish the dinghies, finish the forebeam and get a start on the daggerboards. I will also seek out a new warehouse so that I can move in March or April so that I can join the 2 hulls. This is an exciting time around the boat. With the dingy job nearing […]
Today we managed to tape the joins on the inside of the rear buoyancy compartment. We also managed to clean off the glue from some the joins ready to glass them. And to glue the floor into the hull. That is the most visible of the work on the dingy. I coved and taped the […]
Apart from a dry fit of the top to the bottom of the beam I didn’t do any work today on MM. I will try to fit the u-bolt into a timber pad and glass that in tomorrow. But today, Warren and I did some more work on the dingy. We decided we did want […]
I didn’t get to do any more work on the dingy today but I did do more on the beam. I coved and taped the web in place and glued a stringer to it, ready to glue the top on. Before I do that I will attach 2 stainless steel u-bolts that will be the […]
Happy Australia day to all the Australian readers and to those overseas, well you can always migrate to the greatest country on earth. This morning Jo and I went for our morning walk to Gosford Marina and visited Warren on his cat. He invited us to spend some of the Australia Day celebrations aboard his […]
