Not sure I am catching up but I am making progress. Most of the hull sides including the inside bows under the tramps, and the D section have been bogged and sanded back, so next is a spot fill and another sand. The D sections needs a little more attention, I dont intend for it […]
Not much to show for the last couple of months because sanding is hard to photograph. So its not that I havent been working damn hard on the build, its just that I have not been updating the blog. I know I should, but as I said, the pics dont really show the progress I […]
HAPPY NEW YEAR. Big year this. Very big. 3 (well 4 really but one is still in development and not as date oriented) big events will happen for Jo and I this year. The first is we move into our own new home (its not new, its new to being “ours”) sometime between 12th Jan, […]
Ok, I know I said I would not be repairing the one pointy nose, but….. Fairing is nasty. Its physically hard, boring, dusty, lonely work. I managed 5 hours of it today, and combined with the aches from last nights work shift I feel like a truck hit me, then backed up over me for […]
Lots of words not many pics this post. OK, nose work is on the nose. Thankfully I have pretty much finished them. It took a number of bog runs to get both noses matching and fair to the rest of their respective hull sides as well as being the right (matching) angles, thickness, shape and […]
The natural progression of fairing the flat hull sides is fairing the noses and around to the inboard sides of the hulls, which I intend to fair to the point where the bridgedeck meets the hulls, past that is next to invisible, so only needs a cursory fair, which I have pretty much already given […]
When the nose cones were first shaped I ran out of foam. And I was desperately broke (still broke just not desperately any more), so could not buy more. I even made a ply box to go inside the foam nose to stretch the foam I had go just a little further. I ended up […]
The Bows are closed (on the inside of each hull) as is the foredeck. Next I will glue the side decks on. I had intended to, as I have every month for the last 3, to make the cabin top but I think it will be put off again because 9 Lives is very close […]
As I predicted I did not get any work done during the week as I recovered from my knee operation. I got to the shed on Friday but more just to take delivery from my new friend Terry (building an Easy 11 meter) who kindly offered me the stainless steel rods I need for inside […]
I had an interesting day today. As I have mentioned once or twice before, every now and then I like to spend time with Jo, not building the boat, but I am also keen to keep working so today I managed to do both quite well. I normally do about 6 or 7 hours work […]
