from the boatbuilding stuff and get caught up on some other chores. Three hours later all nice and shiney! ;-)Glued up the keel bottom this morning. The keel sides will present a difficult problem with the hull extension so I’m thinking they’ll be glue…
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Busy last few days
in the ole’ boat shed. It’s been warm too! You can tell when the shed gets that “starved pony” look!The heat shrink plastic sags pretty good when it gets warm but I don’t think it’ll be a problem. It tightens right back up when the temps drop.I had to …
Slow and steady will
win this race. Not being actually as smart as I thought I was I tried to glue and tape both sides of some panel seams at once. The result was a massive failure.Voids in the splices are unacceptable. They’ll eventually lead to a failure of the panel or …
I knew I was
going t run into this lil’ issue eventually.The side panels I’m working on are 32′ 3″ long and the shed is only 32′! Doh! But I knew I’d run into this issue eventually.So I’ve had a plan to open up the barn doors and frame in a smaller door and canopy….
This boatbuilding stuff might
actually be healthy! I got a real work out tonight. Laying out the side panels I came up one panel short! Where the hell is it? The hunt is on. I find it mislabeled miscreant tucked in behind all the long bottom panels I just stacked up! *sigh* I tried…
Saturday morning in the boat shed
From previous posts you can see the kerfs that were cut in the panels by the CnC machine. These are there to help when bending the plywood over the frames that form the bow. When I taped these the fiberglass and epoxy have to be cut away after the epox…
Watching epoxy cure
is like watching paint dry, only worse! I guess you just have to keep plugging away while the epoxy cures. It usually takes 24 hrs till you can unclamp a part and move onto the next. These next few parts will take awhile!This is one half of the bottom …
Making a lil’ headway now
Moved the two sides of the cabin top outside.They’ll stay here till next summer I’m guessing. They’ll be wrapped up neatly in the tarp to keep them dry and safe.Moved onto the bulwarks. These are pretty simple joins so I did both sides at once. First t…
Well Blow Me Down….
or blow me away! We’re pretty lucky we don’t get much really bad weather in this part of the world. My heart goes out to those down south recovering from the weather that’s befallen them this week. We felt the tail end of the storms that caused so much…
Boat building is a lot like
watching paint dry. Well more like watching epoxy cure to be exact. Who said this boat building thing was fun? I spent most of the Easter long weekend (4 days) waiting for epoxy to cure. I even stepped up the process by putting a tent over the splices …
