By the time I got home from work,ate and cleaned up it was 8pm. So, I took apart the shelter to look at yesterday’s butt joint. Much better than the first! Still some bubbles but nowhere near the moon surface of yesterday!!
So, I decided to trim down the edges to be very close to the [...]
Another warm, although windy, day and I got some more work done.
I rounded over and sanded the inside edges of all the remaining bulkheads. I don’t know if I’l ever notice that I did this but it just seemed like a good thing to do…and I’ve hardly ever used that big honking Porter Cable 7239 [...]
Today was a glorious day…nice and sunny and warm. I decided to go ahead with some epoxy work. I figured that with the warmer weather I should have faster cure times and the epoxy should be easier to mix and work with.
First, I decided to laminate the cheek pieces for the rudder. I covered [...]
I have done two tests of the epoxy butt joints, both times being very careful to mix in the proper proportions,etc. In both instances, I was able to peel the fiberglass tape off the two pieces being joined with a very moderate amount of effort.
Chuck L. and Gary on dwforum both think that the [...]
I didn’t get anything done at all tonight as I was unable to find any suitable lumber for the transom…or anything else! I may have to do a lot of laminating in order to finish this boat!
So, fairly late in the evening I went out and set up the pumps in the epoxy and mixed [...]
I came home from work a bit early as I had to run an errand and was able to get started on the boat a little earlier. I wound up finishing bulkheads 11 and 13 so all the bulkheads are now finished. Yee-Ha!! The transom is next.
I e-mailed Chuck Leinweber with some questions about [...]
After a cold week of weather and not much opportunity to do anything I got some time in today.
I did receive a parcel from Noah’s Marine with lots of stainless screws with Robertson heads that I much prefer, some throwaway brushes, mixing cups and some other epoxy mixing things that I will soon [...]
