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 we cut a cardboard stencil to ensure I had the correct size of the floor and then once I had trimmed it here and there I had my size and I transferred its shape to a piece of ply and cut it out. Sam and his sons helped again, and the youngest came up […]
I should pass another milestone this month and fit the dagger cases and the forebeam into the boat and close up the inside bows and foredeck. I wont be gluing the hull to deck turns on yet as I still need to fit mast tubes in and this will be some time yet as I […]
Whilst I have not updated this site for a while (nearly 2 weeks) and I did not work on the boat last weekend because I was at the boat show (for nearly a week away) I have managed another good month putting in 71 hours for the month. Given that I missed about 20 hours […]
Although there is little to show (unfortunately even less to show on this site because I did not take any photos) I got a lot done this weekend. I finally ticked off some of the really awful jobs. The bow sections in both hulls are now coved and glassed so both keelsons are done. I […]
I could only throw an hour at it today. I managed to get the first sheave box glued into the first dagger and to sand and grind the rough dags off the second dagger where the tapes ended around the axle screws and glassed patches over the areas so now when it is set I […]
I had a number of small jobs completed today. I glassed the outside of the second dagger case half and another coat of resin on the inside of the case. I also glued in the keelsons in the starboard hull (which meant I had to remove the deck panel but it is sufficiently set to […]
The benefit of being organised is one job after another can be lined up ready to go. I got 4 different pieces of glass on today, the inside of the second dagger case half, the second daggerboard, and both of the inside bow panels. I also bogged the dagger and I had to cove the […]
The 20 litres of hardener arrived on Wednesday but I have been too busy until today to do anything with it. I now have enough resin again to finish the shell and probably most of the internal fit out, provided of course I can resist spilling any more of it! I spent a couple of […]
I have hardener on order and I was expecting it to arrive today but it did not turn up so now it seems that Wednesday will be more likely. Not to worry, I have plenty to do and not much time to do it (with work) so I don’t think this will be much of […]
