Monday, May 26, 2008

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Not much today. Put a fill coat of epoxy on the transom in the morning and in the evening I scraped it and sanded it and then put some Quick-Fair on.

Sunday, May 25, 2008

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I spent quite a bit of time in the garage but didn’t seem to get much done. That’s how it goes sometimes. I managed to mess up the transom tape by being careless with the block plane and sliced a chunk of tape off. I decided to put another layer on as a result. Did [...]

Friday and Saturday, May 22 & 23, 2008

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Friday night I taped the remaining three seams. Following a series of e-mails with Chuck I decided to only put one layer of tape on them. The taping went fairly quickly.
Saturday morning I got up early and planed the selvage edge off the tapes. Then I put another coat of epoxy on them. Saturday [...]

Thursday, May 22, 2008

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I put a another coat of epoxy onto the tape in the morning before going to work…this to fill the weave.
While at work, Patty called and asked if I was interested in taking the boys out of school and going up to Iroquois Lake where we bought a lot over the winter to build [...]

Wednesday May 21, 2008

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Tonight was the night I figured I would get all the bottom seams taped and epoxied.
Wrong.
First, I went around using the plane, sanding block and cabinet scraper to smooth off the places where I had filled holes, fixed my mistake on the transom and so on.
I was nearly done when I was taking a few [...]

Tuesday May 20, 2008

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I didn’t do too much tonight.
Cameron came out and helped me by crawling under the boat and removing all the masking tape along the seams and then he was put to work removing some of the screws that will be in the way when I start glassing the seams.

I cleaned off the bottom [...]

It’s Coming Along!

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Today I planed down all the seams, filled the gaps where I had used plastic twist ties and crawled and contortioned under the back and filled the joint between the transom, bilge panels and bottom with epoxy and then thickened epoxy.
I started early after getting a phone call from an old friend in the morning. [...]

Lots of Goop

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This morning I got up fairly early and started mixing epoxy to finish off all the seams…well except for the places where the plastic ties are…those spots will get done tomorrow morning early.
It took me a lot longer than I thought it would to mix the epoxy, paint the unthickened epoxy into all the seams, [...]

The Hardest Working Tool in Boatbuilding

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There is no doubt that on my project it is my smallest hand plane, an old nondescript piece of metal that I inherited from my Dad and I suspect he got it from his Dad as well. I removed a ton of material with it today to make the bilge panels fit. The first panel [...]

Bottom Up

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I spent a couple of hours Friday night getting the bottom on the bulkheads, lining it up with the centre lines, drilling holes and tying it all together with plastic zip ties.
I also planed the mess on the stem … getting rid of a ton of thickened hardened epoxy and the extra bit of [...]