5/300 My Half-Glassed Boat ;-)

The last few days have been full of filling, fairing and sanding and getting the bottom ready to glass.
I have been nervous about doing this job and waiting for cooler weather so that I don’t have to worry about not being able to keep up.
I decided to do 1/2 of the hull and then [...]

7/295 To August 23rd

Since last post I have laminated the mast halves together, rolled the boat and done a ton of sanding and worked on fine-tuning the rudder leeboard shape. I also tied the sail to the spars just to see what it looked like
Laminating the mast went ok…it is good that I picked up some [...]

3/288 …to August 19th

Over the last 5 days I haven’t done much. Put five coats of varnish on the spars and they look great! Tonight I sanded and put the first coat of varnish on the hatch covers. I am going to use varnish on quite a bit of the boat. The spars convinced me to take the [...]

8/285 Catch-up to August 14, 2008

I got out of the habit of posting to the blog and have kind of lost track of what I have done since returning from vacation. I haven’t done much unfortunately. I have to admit that I am having a hard time getting motivated when all I see is sanding in my future. I have [...]

2/277 Mast Material

While on vacation on Vancouver Island we stayed a couple of days with friends, Bob and Liisa, in Ladysmith. On our last day I went to Coastal Pacific Forest Products and bought two 17 foot long 2 x 3 1/2 Douglas Fir boards for the mast. After supper Bob and I used his thickness planer [...]