Fusing metals together with lots of angry pixies is fun! I’m no welder mind you. I got a lil’ buzz box inverter stick welder from Princess Auto for small jobs. Decided to make a few of my own ‘special’ modifications to the rudder this morning.Adding tr…
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More Bits & Pieces
Spent part of the morning drilling holes in the skeg for the pintle bearing.Holes drilled for Pintle BearingI must be getting good at this drilling stainless stuff. All 4 holes took me less than 20 mins. Trick is to drill slow and lots of downforce! Oh…
The Dark Side
If you’re squeamish you might want to look away!The dark and dirty side of boat building that no one wants to talk about!2 Weeks accumulation of trashThat’s just what’s been produced in the last two weeks of boat building. Solo cups, chip brushes, sand…
Slow Start
Lil’ slow getting started this morning, I slept in! But, back on track. Basement bulkhead #2 needed some trimming & fitting.Basement Bulkhead #2 filletedWent a little better than yesterday. Still cramped but not as bad as yesterday. Don’t much like…
More Little Nibbles
The plan for today was to plug the big hole in the support for the prop shaft. Just traced out the hole and cut the part with the jig saw. Slipped right in as if it was meant to be there! ;-)Prop shaft hole plugged & glassedThere’s at least 3 layer…
RTFM
That was a common response from the ole’ fella’s when one of us young punks asked a question. RTFM!!! (Read The F*cking Manual). Ain’t nobody got time for that nowadays! ;-)Anyhow, I did read the instructions for the Python Drive. It just happene…
Continuing Saga
The next chapter of the Python Drive saga involves fitting the thrust bearing to the backing plate and mounting that to the bulkhead.First crack at it! Ooops!Just a slight miscalcuationJust a little too tight. I’ll blame it on converting from metric to…
Glued, Screwed & Tattoo’d
It’s in and it ain’t comin’ out! :-)Bulkhead that’ll support the Python drive, dry fitted, glued & taped.Backing blocks glued & screwed into placeThe screws holding the backing blocks will come out once the glue has set. The holes will be fille…
Sticktoitness
Sticktoitness (Capeman 2016)Capeman coined that phrase awhile back on the Bateau.com forums describing my persistence in working on this big project. Had to correct him though, the wife already describes that trait in me as ‘Stubbornness’. Who am…
Massive WTF Moment
Stymied. That’s how I felt this morning. Stymied. I sort of had it planned to glue & tape the two partial frames but then go to thinking ahead about the tanks that have to go between the frames. Downloaded, where I could find them, the drawings for…
