Another weekend of solid work on the boat. Well 2 six hour days. To me unless there is a task such as glassing that must be finished in one session so therefore the session lasts as long as it takes to finish, 6 hours is about the limit. I start around noon and finish at […]
I managed about an hour of work on the boat today. I started sanding at the bow of the inboard side of the hull. The inboard side has a much different shape to the outboard side, and unlike the outboard side there is more of a curve to the hull both top to bottom and […]
Another 6 hours of sanding today and I have now faired half the hull, the outboard side. Well almost. I still have some low spots to fill in and re sand but overall I think the bulk of the work on the outboard (and most visible) side of the hull is done. I will also […]
Well today I had no choice. I started sanding the hull. Well started isn’t exactly accurate. I have done some sanding. But today I started the last stage of the port hull. Once it is sanded, faired and sealed, it is time to turn it. After chatting with another builder (Alan building an Oram 44) […]
Queens Birthday long weekend was a productive one. I have finished all of the coving and glassing of the hull panels and bulkheads and the temporary bulkheads have been removed. Today I managed to glass the last section, the middle section between BH4 and BH5 the main living area, known as the saloon. It is […]
There is still a very big job of fairing to be done on the hull. Although everyone who has built a boat before me has had to do it, knowing that does not make the job any easier to tackle and the more I put it off the more I don’t want to do it. […]
For a number of reasons not much has happened on the boat in the last 10 days or at least it appears so. The first few days until the 23rd I was in Melbourne but in the last week I have been doing a lot of smaller jobs that don’t look significant but in the […]
Yes, we have hard bog all over the boat. It is a bit thin in places despite Randall warning me that he needed to add a little more here and there. I have decided that I would rather also add a little more where needed rather than sand away excess bog. The end result is […]
