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 […]

Yes, another 2 hours of sanding and now the inboard side of the hull has been completely sanded (for this coat). I am sanding using a combination of the Bohler and orbital and the shorter long board. I cant use the longer long board I made on the inboard side of the hull because it […]

I managed 2 hours of sanding (about my limit) today. I started at the bow on the inboard side. I usually like to get the outboard side done first so that I use most energy on the most important side of the hull before my enthusiasm wanes (it hasn’t at all yet but I fear […]