I have stated sanding the starboard hull. I know I am starting to sound monotonous on this but sanding really sucks. I hate it and I can’t imagine anyone liking it. It is tiring, dusty but most of all boring work. I find myself daydreaming a lot while I am sanding. Mostly about launch day […]
I have used a roller to put on the third and final coat of highbuild on Monday. So today I just checked how it had dried but did not attempt to sand if for the final time. I will wait until either tomorrow or Thursday. I am very happy with the way it has turned […]
If only I didn’t sleep in again today I would be able to report that I have sanded the hull ready for the final coat of high build. But I did lie in bed watching Sunday so I didn’t start until 11am and I am about an hour short of finishing the sanding for the […]
After such a productive day yesterday today was a bust. It was a rainy cold miserable day, the best kind of day to be working up a sweat sanding a hull but unfortunately the cold meant that the second coat of highbuild wasn’t set properly. Trying to sand it just resulted in the paper clogging […]
I managed to get the rest of the hull sanded and a second coat of highbuild on today. The underwing side of the hull sanded really easily (as easy as sanding can be, which is still hard work) and was a little fairer than the outboard side (ironic really). I used a fine roller (foam) […]
Just when you thought the worst of it was past and that you could just wave a sanding board at the hull and paint another layer of highbuild reality hits. I started sanding before the highbuild had fully set. I didn’t realize it at the time. The sanding board would clog after just a few […]
This morning I masked off a line on each side of the hull at about the middle of the panel and then masked off the area below the tape line with black plastic. The reason for doing this is so that I have a straight edge where the highbuild and resin stops to feather out. […]
This week I made 2 new sanding tools, I made a shorter sanding board because the long board is a little hard to use on the underwing sections of the hull because it is too long and you only end up using about half the board, so I made another board about half the length […]
Sanding is a horrible job. I think when the designers and engineers design a sanding free boat, everybody will want to build one. Until then the oceans are the domain of the rich or to the dedicated few. My arms are sore, so are my shoulders and my back is just ok. Enough whingeing, I […]
I managed a couple of hours today but it felt a lot longer. Sanding by hand with the long board is not a pleasant task and I am not as fit as I could be, so there was a lot of resting in between short bursts of work. And I am sure my shoulder muscles […]
