I am finally ready to stand the bulkheads on the first hull, the port hull. Once they are stood and braced in place we can start attaching the full length hull panels and we will start to see things happening that look like a boat, and will give more of an impression of how big […]
I took my time this weekend and didn’t get too much done despite spending about 4 hours each day. I have made legs for standing the bulkheads out of the pine and mdf used to clamp the panels during gluing but they are not sturdy enough on their own so I have screwed 2 together […]
Today I marked all but 2 of the bulkheads I didnt finish on Saturday, I just have bulkhead 5 for each hull to go. I filed down the tabs as I went and found that if you hold the file down with just one hand with leather gardening gloves on you can take off the […]
Today I set out the full size plot sheets so as to mark the CL (centre line), DWL (design waterline) and 1200 WL (waterline + 1200 mm) onto the bulkheads in preparation for standing the bulkheads on the strongback. Before marking the lines on each bulkhead I had to first remove all the tab overhangs […]
I ducked in for a quick 2 hours to glue the last few panels and tidy up a bit so that when I next come in I just have to stand the huge bridgedeck panels against the wall before the next stage in the process. Next job is to start standing the bulkheads ready for […]
First up today I cut out the last of the bulkheads and then I glued the last of the 19mm panels (the bridgedeck) well all except 4 which I will do tomorrow, leaving only the 13mm outside furniture panels still to be glued. We will glue those when we need to start fitting the furniture. […]
I have now glued the last of the 25mm bulkhead panels, so today I will cut the bulkheads out and start on the 19mm bulkhead (the last pallet). You can see in the picture the bulkheads with the doorways still in place. I had to use clamps on the end of a few joins just […]
Today rather than gluing panels again I spent the day cutting hull panels out of the 3 layers of sheets attached to the strongback so as to free up some space in the warehouse. We have a small space to both build and run a small importing/wholesaling business from and the 3 double pallets of […]
The Schionning Muster was fantastic!! We took a leap of faith when deciding to build a cat before ever having sailed on one. We had made our decision based solely on what it felt like to move around on one at a marina, in other words, in the same way someone would choose a house […]
After about 2 weekends of work doing about 5 hours each day, I have nearly completed all of the 16mm panels which comprises all the full length hull panels (and some furniture panels). I have cut out some of them (in the last picture from October you can see some of the full length hull […]
