There are a number of jobs that I have been putting off for some time because they are unpleasant, such as fairing the forebeam, gluing and glassing in the keelsons, coving and taping inside of bulkhead 0, sanding the bog on bridgedeck underside hull joins and glassing the insides of the fore hull strip planking. […]
I don’t think I can ever complain about the sanding on the decks of the boat because they must pale into insignificance when compared to the horror of sanding upside down. You may think I am exaggerating but not only do your arms start to ache the moment you lift the sander but you also […]
Last month I prematurely raised the Pure Seal sample a month early. I hinted that the test plate looked pretty good. It does in fact look great. I think this formula is working. To temper my enthusiasm I have to add that it is still only 6 months in the water (from 1st December 06). […]
It took me about 2 hours to give the third and final coat of highbuild a light sand. I have just to sand the rounded chamfer turn. In order to sand the chine straight on the outboard side, I measured and marked a level straight line 10mm below the correct position of the chine and […]
The Starboard hull is almost complete, with just the internal tapes to go before I turn it. Once it is turned I will start on a lot of the little jobs that are time consuming and fiddly as I will be ready to join the 2 finished hulls but wont be able to until I […]
I had a day off yesterday. No work, no boat building. Just a lazy day watching surfers at McMaster’s beach and a burger for lunch. A great relaxing day. Today I sanded the last section of the hull and vacuumed and washed the hull. You can see from the photo that there are very few […]
Four hours work today although only 3 of them were spent sanding. I took regular (about every 15 minutes I had 5 minutes off) breaks. I managed to sand about 3/4’s of the hull. I have sanded all but the large inboard middle hull panel. I figure I have about another hour or so of […]
I applied the second coat of highbuild today. It was a warm day and the coat was setting on parts of the hull while I was still applying the coat to other parts so I should have no problems starting to sand it tomorrow. More sanding, fantastic. One thing that baffled me a little was […]
I did the last of the sanding today but not as much as I thought I would need to do. I decided it would be a good idea for now not to sand the joins. I want there to be a build up of highbuild on the very edge of the chine so that I […]
I had a good day today. Whilst my arms were feeling quite sore, my energy level was high and I got the entire outboard side of the hull sanded. I took me about 3 hours. So apart from about another hours sanding on the chines in particular the curved chamfer, I am pretty much done […]
