Queens Birthday long weekend was a productive one. I have finished all of the coving and glassing of the hull panels and bulkheads and the temporary bulkheads have been removed. Today I managed to glass the last section, the middle section between BH4 and BH5 the main living area, known as the saloon. It is […]
Yesterday and today (6 hrs each day) I have finished coving the sections between BH3 and BH4 (the port bedroom) and BH5 and BH6 (the main bathroom) leaving only the section between BH4 and BH5 (the saloon or more appropriately the halls at the bottom of the stairs from the saloon). Then once that is […]
I have coved the panel joins between bulkheads 4 and 5 and the back of bulkhead 4 this afternoon. The panels were already coved and I had sanded them yesterday. I also removed the temporary bulkhead between bulkhead 4 and 5 (TBH1) and coved these last gaps where the temp had been but taped over […]
The plan was to start earlier today but sleeping in got the better of me again. The first thing I did today was to check to see if the results of yesterdays work was as good as the cove I did where I sanded it smooth before applying tape. This is the benchmark cove. If […]
After my posts about my coving not being as neat as I would like and some of my coves running I had an email from Randal (Wilderness 1100) suggesting my mix is not thick enough, which reminded me of a post on this site warning that the material seems a lot thicker in the pot […]
I have titled the month “turning the hull” for the last 3 months, maybe this month is the one!! It would be fair to say that we haven’t got much done in the last couple of months and that we should have been reporting, some time in May on the turning of the first hull, […]
They say a week is a long time in politics (or football). I have learnt that a month is a very short time in boatbuilding. At least is seems that way. The month is gone and from a combination of interstate business and the Sanctuary Cove boat show week (which with the drive consumed 2 […]
Sanctuary Cove boat show is huge! I actually spent Friday and Saturday at the show and still did not see as much as I would have liked. Next year I will go on all 4 days. Seriously. I had intended to go on all manner of boats to get ideas for fit out, but only […]
As part of our visit to the Gold Coast we have arranged to visit Sean’s 1230. Sean started his boat about 3 months ahead of us but is now nearly a year ahead of us. He has both his hulls finished and joined and the bridgedeck raised and glassed into place. The great thing about […]
After the trouble I had last weekend keeping the coves neat when I glassed them I discussed the problem with a couple of other builders and one of them told me the obvious which hadn’t occurred to me. What is meant by wet on wet really means wet on green. The cove is a epoxy […]
