I had a good day today. Whilst my arms were feeling quite sore, my energy level was high and I got the entire outboard side of the hull sanded. I took me about 3 hours. So apart from about another hours sanding on the chines in particular the curved chamfer, I am pretty much done […]
Yes, another 2 hours of sanding and now the inboard side of the hull has been completely sanded (for this coat). I am sanding using a combination of the Bohler and orbital and the shorter long board. I cant use the longer long board I made on the inboard side of the hull because it […]
I managed 2 hours of sanding (about my limit) today. I started at the bow on the inboard side. I usually like to get the outboard side done first so that I use most energy on the most important side of the hull before my enthusiasm wanes (it hasn’t at all yet but I fear […]
I didn’t do much on the boat today. I wandered in mid afternoon primarily to check that the highbuild was setting ok and to change the wheels on one of the cradles. The wheels I originally put on were supposed to be rated at 65kgs each so 4 should have given a nominal load rating […]
I had a long day today but not all of it was spent working on the boat. More than half the day was spent literally watching paint dry. I started at about 8.30am and immediately applied the first coat of resin. It took a little over an hour to apply a coat to the entire […]
I spent an hour today applying the skirts to mask off the areas I don’t want to resin or highbuild. The only reason that I don’t want or need resin and highbuild on these sections is that they will be glassed later when the bridgedeck is attached to the chamfer and when the strip planked […]
I hand sanded the chamfer turn with the pool noodle tool today. That was a tough half hour! I also filled a few more places in the hull that I thought could use some more fill including 2 more holes that I created by using the Stanley knife to remove some more suspect glass that […]
I spent an hour sanding back all the filler that I put on the hull yesterday and it all worked very well and has remedied the problems of the glass tears and holes. It also saved me some sanding work as I filled some of the low spots that were left so apart from sanding […]
After a great day catching a ferry across Broken Bay for lunch at Palm Beach (from Ettalong) I put in 2 hours in the afternoon scraping at the air bubbles, poorly adhered glass and holes to remove any suspect glass before filling them all with bog. I also filled any of those low spots that […]
Hands up the biggest idiots here. If you raised your hand you are in the top 10 but I still think I would win. I just sanded 70% of the hull using the 60 grit paper when I could have been using the 40 grit and cutting the work almost in half. I was trying […]
