Another week where I got little done, I had a trip to Melbourne on Monday, and meetings in Sydney all day Thursday, and another body part starting to show wear and tear. I must have slept in a strange position on Monday night, exhausted after a really long day in Melbourne, a 9am meeting meant […]
I left the port dagger case not quite fit correctly last night. I should have persevered as all that was needed was a little more trimming of the hole in a couple of places and it would be right. It took me just 15 minutes to get the trimming done today and now the case […]
Psychologically I crossed a major barrier today. I cut the first hole in one of my until now pristine hulls. It takes a bit of courage. You painstakingly make the hulls as strong and watertight as you can so cutting a hole in it is quite daunting. I had the case position marked for the […]
As predicted the glue on the forebeam was still rubbery today so I decided to push on and glass it so that the bond becomes chemical between the glue, cove and glass. It saves sanding and is a stronger bond. So first task was to cove the joins. Easy enough, except under the beam forward […]
Today is a milestone day. I have glued the forebeam into the boat. But before I did that I finished the first dagger case (yesterday) and started today on the second case. To finish the first case yesterday all I had to do was run a bead of resin along the internal joins of the […]
Today I applied 3 layers of uni to the bottom half of the case at the trailing edge and 2 layers of uni to the top half at the leading edge and then covered the uni and the rest of the trailing edge with a layer of double bias glass. My thinking with the uni […]
I had worried that the dagger would not come out of the case. For good reason it turned out. I had tried to remove the dagger when I had the case clamped around the packed out dagger and it was tight then and I didn’t heed the warning. I also made a rookie mistake on […]
With the dagger case glued at the front and set today I sanded that smooth so that I could glass the front and glue the back on. The back is 25mm ply with 3 layers of double bias on the inside. I had pre glassed the inside of the backs on the weekend. You have […]
I had a light day today only 4 hours. There are some things that trump boatbuilding, going out on a cat is one of them, though the weather is crap here at the moment so I didn’t do that. No today my football team was on TV, Carlton was playing the old enemy Collingwood with […]
I needed some help lifting the side deck off the port hull before I could do any further work on the beam so while I waited I got on with another little task you may have noticed that I was stalling on. Trimming the dagger cases and gluing them. Not a particularly taxing task but […]