I did not get much work done this last weekend in May, I was pretty tired after having done the SC boat show and on Saturday I helped Dennis lift his boat up another meter off the ground in order to get the rudders into the sockets. We jacked it up a cm at a […]
In order to sand the steps and get a second coat of paint on I had to bake the steps. Dennis gave me the idea and it worked a treat. I made a temporary oven by leaning 3 sheets of play to form 2 walls and a roof and then draped plastic sheeting over each […]
During the week I sanded back the layer of high build with 120 grit paper and filled a lot of pin holes that the highbuild shows up in the bog layer and gave it another coat of highbuild. I used car bog which is a 2 pack polyester which is not recommended for filling epoxy […]
I got another couple of evenings work on the lid. I am still in doubt to have it finished (including spraying it with top coat gloss white) by next Monday but I am gonna give it a good try. I sanded the back filled edged back to square and slightly bigger than it was before […]
After another 6 hours of sanding then re-bogging, sanding and re-bogging over the 4 weeknights this past week I think I have the steps fair. By wrapping a flexible batten around the step fronts I could see the hollows. Strip planking does not create a curve, it creates a series of small straights and bends […]
I have spent the last weekend fairing the steps. So far I have applied 3 separate layers of bog and sanded them off again. Each time fixing an area of unfairness or filling holes. The first layer of bog was applied straight over the wet tapes that covered the foam edges and as I did […]
After 2 months now I think I can safely say the rear steps will be finished this month. I may not get them glued into the boat because of work I need to do inside the wells that would be much easier to do before I glue the steps in, but they will be finished […]
The steps have given me pause for thought. Embarking on something as big a job as building a boat has you go through a lot of ups and downs. When a task drags on or takes much longer than you had previously anticipated I think it starts to make you wonder how long the rest […]
With the duckboard uprights glassed on I set about making the duckboard back panel. I don’t have a piece of duflex big enough to cut it from left from the kit, as I near the end of the construction of the shell. I also glued and glassed another riser onto the steps each side and […]
On Thursday afternoon I got the other conduit glassed on. This conduit is for wiring such as the outboard controls and also to add more stiffness to the duckboard. With this glued and glassed on yesterday I cut the duckboard frames to shape after setting out their position and marking them on the boat to […]
