The last three days I have gotten a few things done. I fabricated and epoxied a couple of thimbles to the yard. I finished epoxying the front hatch. I epoxied 1/4 inch ply to the 11 and 13 bulkheads in front of and behind the hatch so that the decking will look continuous when installed.
What’s [...]
Entries from July 2008
July 17, 2008
6/275 Substantial Completion & Off On Vacation
July 13, 2008
15/269 Transom, Hatch Covers, etc.
The last couple of days I have gotten a fair bit done. I am undecided on whether or not to use the epoxy primer I have or to go with an alkyd or latex primer. I had been planning on starting to prime the inside of the bulkheads Saturday morning but decided to do other [...]
July 10, 2008
10/254 Dylan Walker – This Bolt’s For You!
The last couple of days have been busy. I have worked part days and come home to work on the boat.
Wednesday I built the hatch supports…cut them out, fitted them and epoxied them into place. After I had everything covered in goop and several pieces attached I remembered that I had wanted to lay the [...]
July 9, 2008
5/244 Front Deck Reinforcements
Before going to work this morning I epoxied two support pieces to the sides of the front compartments about 1/3 of the way from the front. After work I cut the slots for the cross piece and fitted a cross piece. Then, rather than cut the slots I decided to screw/epoxy on a couple of [...]
July 7, 2008
3/239 Hatch, Mast?, Partner
I came home from work a bit early and proceeded to epoxy together the rear hatch supports. It went pretty well.
I also epoxied the last piece of the mast partner. Later in the evening I clamped the partner to the bulkhead and drilled holes through the bulkhead.
I also ripped the 2×10 into 3 [...]
July 6, 2008
6/236 Hatches
I slept in a bit this morning but got up to a cool morning on the edge of rain. It was a nice change from the heat. I started out the day by putting a wrap of 3″ tape around the ends of the yard and boom where holes will be drilled to run lines [...]
July 6, 2008
7/230 Seats!
Today I spent a lot of time with the belt sander shaping the rudder and leeboard. I also drilled holes in the rudder and rudder cheek and bolted them together. Not much to say about that but the wind was howling outside, it was hot and the belt sander is noisy. Our poor neighbours are [...]
July 4, 2008
6/223 Seat Support, Mast Partner and Step
I ripped the seat support piece and got it installed. Because the bolt that the leeboard rotates around passes through this support I did the following to make sure it passed through the right place: I took a piece of scrap and lined it up with a mark for the upper edge of the support. [...]
July 1, 2008
7/217 Seat Support Installation
Worked hard all day…Canada Day….and got another yard/spar laminated. I did that first thing before it got warm. Then I worked on the seat supports.
I cut a scrap piece of mahogany into pieces for the spaces on the bulkheads between the vertical supports and the sides. Then I ripped a longer piece of mahogany [...]
July 1, 2008
7/210 – Seat Supports, etc Photo Catch-up
Sunday, June 29th was a HOT day…well for here anyway after the long cold spring we have had. I was in the garage at 7:45 trying to get a few things done. First off I laminated a spar together. Used every C-clamp that I own to keep the joint together and align both halves [...]
