Well it took slightly longer to stand the last temporary bulkhead tbh6 than I thought. I had anticipated it would take an hour but it took about and hour and a half. I got it stood in about 20 minutes but it took me ages to get it exactly right. I would move it on […]
The last of the bulkheads were stood today with only a small temp to go, you can see it leaning against the wall in the last photo ready to stand so it should go up in about an hour or so. The full shape of the hull has now emerged, the curve (rocker) in the […]
What a very productive day. 3 temps and a bulkhead stood in 6 hours. That’s an average of only 1.5 hours for each, about half what they were taking on the first hull. As I said yesterday I really love this part of the build. No dust, no noise so I can listen to the […]
If you ask different people what part of the same movie they all liked you will likely get different answers from many of them. I am not sure if other builders enjoy the same areas of building and there are many parts of boatbuilding that are not enjoyable, such as sanding but, for me standing […]
I managed another few hours work today to make up for the lack of work yesterday and I stood bulkheads 3 and 4 today. I will be away until Friday so I wanted to have bulkhead 4 stood today as it is the first of the traversing bulkheads and I wanted an idea of how […]
I mentioned that I should be able to finish the starboard hull a little faster than I did the port hull. That is provided I actually get off my butt and do the work, and that I don’t repeat some of the things I did on the port hull. This weekend I only managed 3 […]
I have formally started building the starboard hull. I have stood the first 2 bulkheads, bulkheads 0 and 1. I am using the same leg positions as used on the port hull so that no matter if I had made a mistake in the original positioning of the bulkheads in the port hull they will […]
I stood the last 3 bulkheads today and apart from a few more screws and a last final (and complete) re check of all measurements I am pretty much done with the standing of the bulkheads. But not before a minor drama (of my own stupidity!!) today. I got bulkhead 7, the last of the […]
I got a really promising start today, before it all started to go pear shaped. I got the first bulkhead, tbh 4 up in just under 2 hours, so it had me thinking I might have tbh 5 and bulkhead 7 up by the end of the day, but unfortunately I killed the cordless drill […]
I got another two bulkheads up, adjusted to their correct position and braced. It took me around 5 hours, 3 hours for tbh3 and 2 hours for bulkhead 6. I have another 2 temps tomorrow. At least they start to get smaller from here on. Other than that, not much to tell.
