The intention of the foam to create a lip around the cockpit roof is threefold, so that rain will not drip randomly over the edge it should pool and be drained where it want it to or at least predictably, also so that I have a flat surface for attaching a hold rail that I […]
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 […]
