An easy afternoon (its still hot, not as hot as it is for Tom on Scrumble in Darwin! but hot nonetheless) only did 3 hours work and only trimmed the panels to each other on the outboard side of the hull. I think it looks quite fair, there are some panels very near to bulkheads […]
Brett mentioned that the chamfer panel, when unscrewed would retain a memory of the shape it needed to bend back to and I was relieved to find out today that as predicted, the chamfer panel screwed back into place (at bulkhead 0) after I had put glue on the bulkheads, a lot easier than it […]
I only got a little done today, I have now glued all the panels including the rear half of the chamfer and also started filling some of the larger gaps with strips cut from off-cut Duflex. I will hopefully get the front of the chamfer glued tomorrow. It is a big job but I am […]
Over the last couple of days I have managed a couple of hours here and there. I have glassed the inside of the last panel that I didn’t get to do last week because of the rush to get the panels on yada, yada, but I now have them done. I have glued all of […]
After a leisurely morning showing the boat (I am starting to refer to it as a boat now!) to some prospective boat builders in my area, I spent my Sunday afternoon unscrewing what I have called the bilgeboards from the bulkheads, from the mdf temps in the centre of the boat forward on each side […]
Friday 13th and I had Brett Schionning down to help with the chamfer panel. As readers of my site will know, we are one of the first building this design and there are some minor gremlins in the kit cut, so Brett wanted to see for himself what they were and how the hull goes […]
Another tough day. It is still stinking hot and it makes working extremely difficult. I started at 9am and by lunchtime it became apparent that I was not going to be able to keep the schedule we had set in order to have Brett come down and help attach the chamfer panel on Friday. By […]
A full 8 hour day today and it was hot and hard work. I managed to get the keel panels glued and have got the next 2 hull panels (3 & 6) which are the first angle from the keel, you could call them bilge boards, fibreglassed ready for gluing tomorrow. Brett suggested a great […]
The method I use to attach the hull planks to ensure they are in the correct position fore and aft is to sit them in place (the keel panels) and then bend the bow sections down to meet the 0 bulkhead, then once I am satisfied they meet correctly I attach the panel at the […]
