The roof is starting to take shape and should be fully shaped by the end of the first week of November. Then by mid month it should be glassed on the outside. By the end of the month it should be glassed on the inside and ready to go onto the boat. In the month […]
Today was a 35 degree day. By mid afternoon I guess it to be 40 in the shed at floor level and 45 at deck level. Fortunately I am working at floor level. I am hoping for a cool change soon as there is no way I can wet the roof glass out in such […]
I forgot to mention last week, on the 24th I passed a milestone, I passed the 3 year anniversary of the start of actual boat building. I made the strong back in early October 2005 and on 24/10/05 I glued the first of the panels together on the strong back. I originally set myself the […]
An early morning start (7am) was needed today and I am glad I did because by noon the shed was hot again but fortunately working under the bridgedeck is actually a few degrees cooler so I soldiered on until 3pm making 8 hours for the day. I also had a few visitors through the day […]
I think I have solved the problem of the hard turn on the roof. Because the hoop pine veneer is not as strong as the glass on duflex I have been cutting the kerfs down to only about 3/4 of the way through the panel to leave a bit of strength in the board, but […]
Slow progress on the roof at the moment, much to my frustration. When you are building an exciting section of the boat that will dramatically alter the look of the boat, you want to finish it as fast as you can so that you get the benefits of that high visual impact. When small things […]
After a difficult week where I didn’t get a single hours work on the boat I finally managed today to fix the problems with the setting of the roof frames so in effect I am back to where I was last Saturday night. In fact where I was on the 6th, 2 weeks ago! Anyway, […]
There are days when at the end of it you are no closer (or in effect further) to finishing the boat than you were before you started. Unfortunately you just have to roll with them because as sure as the tide you will have them. I had one today. I may have rushed in my […]
An hour is better than nothing. I glued the last of my duracore planks long enough to strip the entire length of the roof. The roof is going to be about 100mm short of 2 full lengths glued end on end. I am short about 4 planks of finishing the roof with the duracore I […]
In parts of Australia today was a public holiday including where I live in Sydney but not in Melbourne where the company I work for is based so I still had to do some work but still got the afternoon to work on the boat. The work I did was to set up all of […]
