I had a late start today and was also distracted by having a TV on in the shed (on the bridgedeck!) to watch my team get smashed again in the football. I was contemplating going as my team is only ever in Sydney once a year (I follow Carlton for the Southern State Aussies) but […]
The cross boat bulkheads (4,5,6,7) are strengthened with uni tape along the top edge of the bulkhead (after removing the balsa core to a depth of 25mm) and also on either side of the bulkheads on the bridgedeck laid one layer on top of another. On one bulkhead 15 layers of 450g uni is specified. […]
With the underside of the boat now complete except for fitting such things as daggerboards, rudders, outboard holes and the nose cones the rest of the work on the boat is for the inside or topsides. Even though a lot of work will still take place off the boat, such as building the saloon roof […]
Back on the real boat today and I managed in 5 hours what it took me 7 hours to do last Sunday. I coved, taped, and bogged the starboard hull to underwing join. Some of that extra 2 hours last week was preparation for this job such as sanding the rough glue away in the […]
I don’t think I can ever complain about the sanding on the decks of the boat because they must pale into insignificance when compared to the horror of sanding upside down. You may think I am exaggerating but not only do your arms start to ache the moment you lift the sander but you also […]
Today was a tough day. I thought I might get both hull to underwing joins coved and taped today but I worked all day (7 hours) and only managed to get one done. I did manage to bog the tapes though. It took me about 5 and half hours to sand back the rough spots […]
After a couple of days in Melbourne I got back to work on the boat. Today I taped the topside deck to chamfer joins. I filled the remaining gaps that were under the tabs as I went and then taped onto the wet filler. I also decided to peel ply the tapes with recycled peel […]
As I mentioned in my last post, the plans call for the deck panels that are joined together to create the giant full bridgedeck to be butt joined together, glued and taped, so I glued the panels and I taped the underside and then glued the stiffeners on and faired it. But when it came […]
Today I tabbed the deck panel into place then I set about filling the joins with coving material in the same way that I did on the hull panels. I filled from above first and then I went below the deck and cleaned up wherever the glue had run through (where the gaps were a […]
I think the kerfing of the forward web would have been a difficult job had it not been for the kerfing I did when making the dinghy. I had confidence that it would work well and it did. I am very happy with the end result and happy with the speed and relative ease at […]
