Today I sanded all of the rough glue which often sets in sharp point, on each of the joins that need to be glassed to finish the foredeck. The side deck to fore deck joins require quite large coves larger than the ones that join the chamfer panel to the hull or underwing, the largest […]
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 am in Melbourne for a few days and a few more thoughts that I want to report on have come to mind. Just on the coving and taping, like most things in life, I got better and faster as I progressed and you can see that progression in the tapes and probably be able […]
Queens Birthday long weekend was a productive one. I have finished all of the coving and glassing of the hull panels and bulkheads and the temporary bulkheads have been removed. Today I managed to glass the last section, the middle section between BH4 and BH5 the main living area, known as the saloon. It is […]
Yesterday and today (6 hrs each day) I have finished coving the sections between BH3 and BH4 (the port bedroom) and BH5 and BH6 (the main bathroom) leaving only the section between BH4 and BH5 (the saloon or more appropriately the halls at the bottom of the stairs from the saloon). Then once that is […]
I have coved the panel joins between bulkheads 4 and 5 and the back of bulkhead 4 this afternoon. The panels were already coved and I had sanded them yesterday. I also removed the temporary bulkhead between bulkhead 4 and 5 (TBH1) and coved these last gaps where the temp had been but taped over […]
The plan was to start earlier today but sleeping in got the better of me again. The first thing I did today was to check to see if the results of yesterdays work was as good as the cove I did where I sanded it smooth before applying tape. This is the benchmark cove. If […]
After my posts about my coving not being as neat as I would like and some of my coves running I had an email from Randal (Wilderness 1100) suggesting my mix is not thick enough, which reminded me of a post on this site warning that the material seems a lot thicker in the pot […]
After the trouble I had last weekend keeping the coves neat when I glassed them I discussed the problem with a couple of other builders and one of them told me the obvious which hadn’t occurred to me. What is meant by wet on wet really means wet on green. The cove is a epoxy […]