There is still a very big job of fairing to be done on the hull. Although everyone who has built a boat before me has had to do it, knowing that does not make the job any easier to tackle and the more I put it off the more I don’t want to do it. […]
A quick recap on where we are. We have recovered from the bad bog and now have the final preparation of both the inside of the hull and the outside before the hull can be turned. Of course the fairing is important that it is done before the hull is turned because it is easier […]
For a number of reasons not much has happened on the boat in the last 10 days or at least it appears so. The first few days until the 23rd I was in Melbourne but in the last week I have been doing a lot of smaller jobs that don’t look significant but in the […]
Yes, we have hard bog all over the boat. It is a bit thin in places despite Randall warning me that he needed to add a little more here and there. I have decided that I would rather also add a little more where needed rather than sand away excess bog. The end result is […]
What a relief. And like I said we only lost 2 weeks and a small amount of material and a lot of hard work. But it is great to be back on track. (That is, of course, assuming we have now done it correctly! If we haven’t you may find an abrupt end to this […]
The wombat jnr is a machine to “wet out” fibreglass in long lengths and as it does so it applies the correct amount of resin and then rolls it onto an axle that can be removed and taken to the job and the wet fibreglass is then rolled out and smoothed down. The dry glass […]
Ok, do you want the good news or the bad news? I have removed all the suspect bog from the hull using a chisel. And in all it only took 15 hours. That’s the good news. I am 5 hours ahead of forecast for the job. Now the bad news. I sanded a 1 meter […]
I have had a lazy weekend, with a bad case of the CBB’s (Couldn’t be bothered) the natural enemy of the project boatbuilder. It is sometimes hard to maintain enthusiasm and motivation when having to do either the unpleasant tasks involved in boatbuilding (sanding) or having to do a long, hard tedious job that is […]
As of today (Saturday) I have managed to get all the soft bog off the outboard side of the hull and about half of the inboard side. I will be able to finish the stripping back tomorrow and should have the hull sanded and ready for reapplication during the week. So in the end this […]
I have only managed to get about half the bad bog stripped off so far but I have only put in about 6 hours so at that rate it should only take about 12hours rather than my original estimate of 20. The more I do the faster I get but caution is still needed as […]
