Since last weekend I have sanded the entire hull so that it looks fairly good to my untrained eye. I am agonizing over how to paint it, what to paint it with, etc, etc. The choices are endless it seems. The different points of view vastly different. It is hard to figure out what to [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Assembly’
September 1, 2008
15/315 My All-Glassed Boat
In the last four days I have finished glassing the bottom, covered everything with Quik-Fair to fill the weave and smooth things out, attached the keel strip, stem and transom and sanded half the boat to nearly be ready for a coat of primer!!!!!!
Glassing the second side was more work than the first. Because the [...]
August 23, 2008
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 [...]
August 15, 2008
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 [...]
July 17, 2008
6/275 Substantial Completion & Off On Vacation
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 [...]
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 [...]
