If you have ever owned or built a boat, I am sure you have said that or words to that effect, many times. I say it this time because the boat is raised so high at the sterns it looks like its….buckin, not because its a buckin boat and all buckin boats make you feel […]
Actually, its Aprils fools day. Sorry. Fork lift pic will be explained in the next post which should follow later today or mañana.
The section of boat aft of the last bulkhead, including my hull extensions are now sealed. Well, almost sealed. In the starboard hull there is a conduit with the underwater light power lead coming through and with some sealant in the end of that conduit around the wire, it is sealed. In the port hull, […]
Two down 3 to go, except the next 3 are actually one big one so 1 to go? But who’s counting? Before I can glass the top steps in I have a bit of work correcting them so that they wont fall apart on me. I have to remove the overhang (that was originally going […]
So the bottom steps are now all closed up, the buoyancy tanks below now sealed in and the hull extension profile is now complete. I am still to decide on the hull side profile, that is, will I leave the step extension as an obvious extension or will I extend the hull side profile to […]
There are not too many milestones left to tick off. Finally glassing the last piece of boat on, finally pushing a sanding board along and deciding it is ready for paint, painting, bolting everything back on, launch! And each of them more satisfying than the one before. I had a little one today that I […]
Slow going the past couple of weeks. I have been working lots of shifts which rob me of most of my available build time for very little return. I have gone from working few hours for good pay to working long hours for poor pay, but such is life. I am grateful to be employed […]
New year, could it be….nah lets just move on for now. I have moved my blog to a new host/server and am having a few issues with the migration. Some of the pics have not migrated properly, I will have to reload them. Hopefully all will be back to normal in a few days. Ok, […]
The last couple of days I have been lazing around not doing much (reading my Christmas present book and tv Sydney to Hobart/cricket, a boxing day tradition), but today I started the prep work for hanging the rudders and hanging the ladder. To help me visualise how this will all need to look Jo transposed […]
Working on bits that hang out over either end of the boat. The davits hang far enough out over the stern that sanding them after they are glassed in would be very difficult if not impossible given their curves and edges. I have run bog over them and sanded it back a couple of times, […]
