Today I plumbed the legs properly and screwed the planks down for the bottom half of the beam, and glued them so that tomorrow I can remove it from the jig, and start sanding it ready to glass. I started the planking at the top of the leading edge of the beam and worked back […]
Happy New Year to all. Now that the hulls are completed, I can now look forward to new things to do on the boat. This makes the work more challenging and more fun as new tasks mean having to think about how things are done as opposed to the fairly tedious nature of making the […]
Happy New Year to all. Now that the hulls are completed, I can now look forward to new things to do on the boat. This makes the work more challenging and more fun as new tasks mean having to think about how things are done as opposed to the fairly tedious nature of making the […]
I have applied the last tape, so the starboard hull is now officially ready to turn. There is nothing more to do to this hull until it is turned. After I turn it, I still have the keel centre to tape on both hulls and then I can start to do things like add the […]
I have just over an hours work to do until I can say I have finished the starboard hull to the turnover stage. I have coved and taped all but 1 of the bulkhead to hull panel joins, with just the aft most bulkhead join to do. I will probably get this done either tomorrow, […]
This past week I managed a couple of 3 hour stints in which I was able to tape 2 bulkheads each time. I coved and taped the 4 bulkhead sides inside 2 of the front 3 sealed buoyancy chambers (between BH1 & 2 and BH2 & 3) leaving just the most forward between BH0 and […]
We got back from our early Christmas retreat a little earlier than expected so I was able to get some more boat work done. This makes up for the slacking I have been doing this past week or so. I taped 3 more bulkhead sides, the back of bulkhead 3 which it the front of […]
Firstly apologies to the readers that have been unable to get onto my site for the past few days. The server claims they were hit SYN attack which is apparently where they are maliciously bombarded with hits that slows or stops there site. I have been moved to another server and it now seems ok. […]
As I said I would give the PureSeal another test with the new sample and see how the new “improved” formula holds up. Unless there was a glaring mistake in the make up of the previous formula that this new one addresses I am not going to be as hopeful as I have been in […]
It was cooler again today but being a Sunday I took it fairly easy again (the Test match is still on tv) but I did manage to do 2 of the 15 bulkhead to hull tapes. There are 9 bulkheads 0 thru 8 but the front of bulkhead 0 on the outside of the hull […]
