….You may as well do the job properly. Dont you hate that voice in your head sometimes? I have messed around on this build nearly 9 years now, why would you cut corners for the sake of a few more days work? Makes some sense I suppose, but there are going to be days and […]
Some builders tell me that fairing is often only finished when you can convince yourself it is. As difficult and tiring as fairing is, believe it or not, its addictive and good enough is never good enough. Buoyed by my success (yeah I’m claiming it) in repairing the roof so far, I have decided good […]
Many years ago I made a mistake when fitting the roof that I have documented before. But before I go into that again, lets go back a bit further. The boat I am building is a kit, that is, most panels came pre-cut out of flat panels. The parts that did not were the highly […]
When Jo and I first got the notion to go cruising it occurred to us more than once, that we dont know the first thing about sailing. Jo had a little experience as a small girl sailing on a 14ft mono sail boat with her dad, but sailing on a very small trailer sailer on […]
Not a lot to report unfortunately. At least not in this post. The going got extremely slow on the outboard tracks for a couple of reasons. Firstly, for the last week and a half I have had the flu which left me lethargic and tired, because unlike in the past, I still have to work to […]
The boat is back down. After a nerve racking little while jacked up in the air at a somewhat precarious angle, all the work on the rudders and under the hulls is done and the next little bit of work requires level and square again (level = fore to aft, square = level left to […]
The rudders are hung, so now I am working on the outboard doors, the last thing I want to complete before I lower the boat back down. Only because I will be bolting these parts in through the hull so having them a little higher makes access just a touch easier. Next job after this […]
Happy May Day to our Northern Hemisphere friends, or as it is more widely celebrated, workers day around the world. Ironically it is one of the things you never want to say into a radio mic on a boat. Nothing happy about that. With the copper epoxy coating on the rudders and hull extensions the […]
Its official. I am too damn old for this! The underside of the hull extensions and bottom steps are bogged and sanded, and spot filled. Next step is another sand to take the excess bog from the spot fill and if there is no further spot filling needed, a coat of high build, another sand […]
Take 2. The site went down a short while (hours or minutes not sure) after I uploaded this post, then 2 days later when the site was finally available again, after showing all sorts of weird stuff including someone else’s blog, this post was gone. This is a complete rewrite of that blog, so if […]
