They say trouble comes in 3’s. The week before last the timing belt on my car broke on the freeway instantly seizing the motor doing around $4000 damage to the engine on my car in Melbourne, and I was in the process of getting it ready for sale as I no longer needed to have […]
Now that the hull is glassed it is time to make it look smooth ready for final coats of various materials such as more resin then high build, a cross between paint and bog that is applied and sanded a number of times until the hull is super smooth and fair and ready for final […]
We left the peel ply off when we had finished glassing yesterday as we knew that today we would be bogging the hull whilst the resin was still green. I decided to go with a spatula like trowel instead of the usual plasterers trowel as I thought the oversize spatula would be better at picking […]
I decided that the best way to ensure the glassing was done and done well was to have Brett come down and help and advise me again. So today we got the hull glassing done. I spent some time yesterday preparing the things I would need for the job, like making the temporary glass cutting […]
I have been at a seminar all weekend but I managed to finish the port hull preparation for glassing on Friday. There is still a long way to go with the hull after glassing such as bogging and fairing but that is next. The last task in the preparation of the port hull was the […]
I spent nearly a whole day on the boat today and I also had some help from Lauren and we did the coving (some people call it filleting) on the outside hull at the chamfer panel (and a small amount of the inside hull coving) and removed all of the peel ply which also required […]
I spent a few hours yesterday and again only a few hours today sanding the touch ups and hole fills back down and generally cleaning up the hull ready for glassing. I have found that my idea to remove the peel ply at the last possible moment so that any spills of resin, glue, filler […]
Jo and I spent 3 lovely weeks travelling to the UK and Hong Kong on business, well we had a 4 day trade fair in Birmingham and 2 days visiting with a supplier in Guangzhou China, the rest of the time was sight seeing. We got back on Sunday but is has taken a day […]
Finally back home and getting ready to finish the port hull. The hull needs to have the screw holes filled and sanded and any pinholes caused by air bubbles in the join filler. Then the fibreglass will be applied and then final fairing, before the hull is ready for turning.
I have now sanded all of the filler filled joins except for some unfilled holes here and there, and attempted to sand the join down the middle of the keel. This was a little harder to do because most of the fill was Duflex and glue filler which is much harder stuff than the filler […]
