With a little more sanding and re bogging, the stern is starting to look like the shape it needs to be for me to glass it. Remember I am not fairing the hull now, just getting it close enough to glass, the fairing will take place on the boat once I have glued the stripped […]
Its amazing what some glue and bog can achieve. I managed to make up a shape by just pushing planks up against the broken sections, jamming them in where I could and filling spaces as I went and before long I had almost found the shape. I still have a big high spot, even more […]
I had a good day today, and I managed to get the planks on the starboard side glued strip planking. I also filled the rest of the panels on the dingy and sanded the ones I did yesterday and refit the hatch lid. I still have to attach the hinges and locking latch and I […]
Using 25mm wide strips of 3mm mdf as straps I have levelled the planks to each other in the Starboard hull. In most cases you only need a screw at the top and bottom, but for some of the more uneven panels you may need to put a screw into each plank around that is […]
I spoke to soon, the temperature was about 10 degrees cooler today, perfect for gluing the planks to each other, as luck would have it work came in and I didn’t have much time to work on the boat today. I only had about 1 spare hour so I used it to core out the […]
The starboard planks are on the boat. I still have to trim some of the planks at the stern and finish shaping it, then I have to level the planks to each other, which I should get done tomorrow. Then I can glue them on Thursday and Friday afternoons, sand the glued planks on Saturday […]
During school holidays whilst Jake is down we are slowly building him and Dennis another dinghy each, only this time we are trying ply walls to see if light ply will create a lighter boat, not that the original is too heavy, as it is lighter than an equivalent rigid inflatable but solid duflex is […]
With the Easter holidays upon us, we have Jo’s son Jacob and one of his friends Bronson with us for the holidays. So as an ongoing holiday project we are building him a dingy but experimenting with 4mm ply to see if it still has the strength but is a lot lighter than the duflex. […]
Warren has been feeling a little guilty for not spending as much time on my dingy (his is already in use). But I have repeatedly assured him that I am more than satisfied with the work he has done in design and also his help in moving my hulls next weekend more than make up […]
I didn’t make much progress on the dingy today even though I was at the warehouse for about 4 hours. So I am only counting 2 hours of work on the boat for a total of 36. Instead we emptied the warehouse of a lot of the remaining stock we store there and transferred it […]
