The last of the bulkheads were stood today with only a small temp to go, you can see it leaning against the wall in the last photo ready to stand so it should go up in about an hour or so. The full shape of the hull has now emerged, the curve (rocker) in the […]
What a very productive day. 3 temps and a bulkhead stood in 6 hours. That’s an average of only 1.5 hours for each, about half what they were taking on the first hull. As I said yesterday I really love this part of the build. No dust, no noise so I can listen to the […]
If you ask different people what part of the same movie they all liked you will likely get different answers from many of them. I am not sure if other builders enjoy the same areas of building and there are many parts of boatbuilding that are not enjoyable, such as sanding but, for me standing […]
I managed another few hours work today to make up for the lack of work yesterday and I stood bulkheads 3 and 4 today. I will be away until Friday so I wanted to have bulkhead 4 stood today as it is the first of the traversing bulkheads and I wanted an idea of how […]
I mentioned that I should be able to finish the starboard hull a little faster than I did the port hull. That is provided I actually get off my butt and do the work, and that I don’t repeat some of the things I did on the port hull. This weekend I only managed 3 […]
I have formally started building the starboard hull. I have stood the first 2 bulkheads, bulkheads 0 and 1. I am using the same leg positions as used on the port hull so that no matter if I had made a mistake in the original positioning of the bulkheads in the port hull they will […]
I have now started on the Starboard hull. The build should be the same as it was for the Port hull, except faster as I now know a little better what I am doing and should be able to make decisions faster and make less mistakes. I will also know what not to spend so […]
With the hull turned the work on the second hull has started, but apart from some preparatory work such as re attaching and leveling string-lines, nothing much to report was done today. I will start to position the bulkheads on the weekend as I am down to Melbourne again tomorrow. I will want to go […]
There are milestone moments in the building of a cat, taking delivery of the kit, planking the first hull and then turning the first hull over. Today after some minor and frustrating setbacks we finally passed this elusive milestone. Finally. Among many other jobs to do I still have to tape the join down the […]
I am ready to roll the hull over on Saturday. I only have a few tasks for tomorrow. I have still to decide if I will give the copper coat a light sand, I will ring the Pure Seal distributor tomorrow to check if the surface preparation for applying Pure Seal needs me to sand, […]
