I did not get much done on Monday, I flew to Melbourne on Tuesday and had meetings all day Wednesday and it was very hot on Thursday so I did next to nothing all this week. Today was a public holiday (4 day Easter weekend) so I got to work most of the day. Having […]
Today I rewarded my work ethic of the last 2 weeks with a brief 3 hours work. I really enjoy watching Grand Prix racing and I usually stay up to watch them on TV, and in previous more prosperous years we even go down to Melbourne for Friday practice, I don’t go on race day […]
Yesterday I glued more blocks onto the daggers. There are 4 blocks forward of the spine and 8 blocks aft of it. The 4 blocks forward run the full length of the board but the shape after the spine has a triangle in the top right corner removed so the board is narrower fore to […]
Another day of little time to work on the boat, I had a doctors appointment to get my scuba medical certification in the late afternoon so I got an hours work either side of it, meaning I could glue another set of foam either side of the spine each work set, gluing to the spine […]
Another day of busy work (well most of the day was wasted with a cancelled flight which meant an afternoon of work catch up) so I didn’t get much time on the boat today. I was at the shed 2 hours but with phone calls etc I reckon only an hour was spent working on […]
It is amazing how long it takes to strip cut anything. It took me a while to cut the strips for planking and it took me 2 hours to cut the strips of foam for the daggerboards using a circular saw with a sliding fence. I set out the stacks as I cut them to […]
Using a circular saw with a fence on it, I cut the strips of duflex to 120mm wide, and also strips of 9mm ply. The spine of the daggerboard was changed from a western red cedar block to 3 strips of 13mm duflex but on advise from one of the first builders to build to […]
After such a productive first week, I got very little done today. Jo had her oldest school friend and her partner visit. I did manage an hour or so either side of their visit. I started by tracing out a male plug (mold) from the 2 half female mdf molds that came in the kit. […]
