I started sanding the filled hull joins today. I found the going slow and hard with the orbital sander. I had applied way too much filler and only had to remove it all again. In the end I used a 80 grit sanding disk on the angle grinder which removed it very fast but will […]
I have now finished filling all of the hull join gaps so all that is left to do before sanding it all smooth is to fill all of the screw holes. I am getting some super large syringes and will give them a try tomorrow. Some people drill out the holes even further to make […]
I have completely filled all the hull joins including removing all the tabs and filling the gaps left under them. I did this work yesterday (4 hours until the heat got to me) and today I have started on the gap in the keel. I started by selecting an appropriate off-cut and then measuring the […]
I really admire builders in the northern states of Australia that can build a boat in the heat and humidity that they must face. It has been a warm summer here in Gosford NSW and I am finding I can only stand about 4 hours before the heat gets to me and I find myself […]
February will be a shortened month as I have to go on a business trip for most of it. I am hoping to have the port hull ready for glassing with all hull joins and screw holes filled and sanded.
I got some great advise today from another boat builder that I have mentioned on site. Judy from Scrumble had seen on the site what I am doing and had a great method for applying the filler to the joins. On Scrumble they used snap seal lunch bags as piping bags. I fold a lunch […]
I had some help today from Jo and her wealth of boatbuilding experience. She doesn’t actually have any but from the quality of her work you would swear that she does. We filled the chamfer panel gap together and it is a good thing I had her help because it is a 2 person job. […]
I didn’t get much done today, I started late and finished early! I did get the rest of the outboard joins of the port hull filled, including removing the fairing tabs and filling the voids left behind them. Well almost, I still have a few tabs to remove and also the join to the keel […]
Back on the boat today and I managed to get a fair bit done. First of all I remembered something I had read a few times on other builders sites, that is not to get lazy because the end result is in direct proportion to the work put in on the little things. Whilst I […]
Another easy day. I managed to get all of the trimming tabs onto the inboard side of the hull and started to mask some of the bigger gaps. I have just taped the inside of some of the joins with packing tape to stop the glue from oozing out the other side when I trowel […]
