I have removed the temporary bulkheads, although I am not quite finished with them yet. The curve shape of the hull to deck is made by strip planking cedar strips and I will need the temps of this section to create these curved panels. I will cut the un-needed sections of them out so they […]
I have sanded the filled chine turns on about half the hull. I have done most of the inboard side and the bow section of the outboard side, but haven’t done the keel, so about half the hull. The keel filled beautifully with the Duflex plug (see the pic on the right below). I still […]
I am in Melbourne for a few days and a few more thoughts that I want to report on have come to mind. Just on the coving and taping, like most things in life, I got better and faster as I progressed and you can see that progression in the tapes and probably be able […]
Yesterday and today (6 hrs each day) I have finished coving the sections between BH3 and BH4 (the port bedroom) and BH5 and BH6 (the main bathroom) leaving only the section between BH4 and BH5 (the saloon or more appropriately the halls at the bottom of the stairs from the saloon). Then once that is […]
I have coved the panel joins between bulkheads 4 and 5 and the back of bulkhead 4 this afternoon. The panels were already coved and I had sanded them yesterday. I also removed the temporary bulkhead between bulkhead 4 and 5 (TBH1) and coved these last gaps where the temp had been but taped over […]
The plan was to start earlier today but sleeping in got the better of me again. The first thing I did today was to check to see if the results of yesterdays work was as good as the cove I did where I sanded it smooth before applying tape. This is the benchmark cove. If […]
After my posts about my coving not being as neat as I would like and some of my coves running I had an email from Randal (Wilderness 1100) suggesting my mix is not thick enough, which reminded me of a post on this site warning that the material seems a lot thicker in the pot […]
After the trouble I had last weekend keeping the coves neat when I glassed them I discussed the problem with a couple of other builders and one of them told me the obvious which hadn’t occurred to me. What is meant by wet on wet really means wet on green. The cove is a epoxy […]
There is still a very big job of fairing to be done on the hull. Although everyone who has built a boat before me has had to do it, knowing that does not make the job any easier to tackle and the more I put it off the more I don’t want to do it. […]
