I didn’t get to do any more work on the dingy today but I did do more on the beam. I coved and taped the web in place and glued a stringer to it, ready to glue the top on. Before I do that I will attach 2 stainless steel u-bolts that will be the […]

Happy Australia day to all the Australian readers and to those overseas, well you can always migrate to the greatest country on earth. This morning Jo and I went for our morning walk to Gosford Marina and visited Warren on his cat. He invited us to spend some of the Australia Day celebrations aboard his […]

As predicted, it only took an hour to glue the planked beam top. The method of gluing is quite simple, I trowel the glue in between the planks and remove as much excess as I can from the plank faces so that I don’t have as tough a job later sanding it smooth for glassing. […]

Today it was a 40 degree C (about 104 F) day. Regular readers will know that on really hot days my work rate halves. And I also cant sustain a long work day. To compound matters Jo and I woke early and went for a walk along a local beach and I forgot to wear […]

I glued the ply web parts together yesterday so that today I could glue the web into the beam. I simply applied some glued to the plates and screwed it back together to set overnight. It took less than 15 minutes to mix the glue and screw the plates back on. Today I removed the […]

The forebeam is hollow and made up of 2 strip planked halves glued together. To provide extra support in the middle there is a plywood web. The web is cut from a sheet of 12mm ply and has to have the curve of the beam cut into it so that it can be glued on […]

I didn’t manage to get anything done on the boat yesterday due to having to help Jo get a waterbed and then moving stock from the warehouse to the shop until mid afternoon by which time I was exhausted so I didn’t have the energy anyway. Today I glassed the forebeam with 1 layer of […]

I had to cut some glass from a roll of a different type of glass, uni directional. In places where there are particular loads uni directional glass has all its strength woven in just one direction instead of 2 directions in double bias (or 3 in triaxial) glass. The weight of the glass is 450g […]

Today I plumbed the legs properly and screwed the planks down for the bottom half of the beam, and glued them so that tomorrow I can remove it from the jig, and start sanding it ready to glass. I started the planking at the top of the leading edge of the beam and worked back […]