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October 14, 2008
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October 7, 2008
2/441 Done!
I am done. Today I mounted the last pieces of hardware, tied the sail to the spars (in the dark in the rain on the front lawn with lightning flashing), figured out how to rig the halyard, put on a final coat of varnish (for this year) and put the licence plate on the trailer.
The [...]
October 4, 2008
10/428 Hatches and the Search for Bolts
The last two days have been pretty good but also frustrating. I got the hatches hinged and latched and supported. It was trickier than I thought and I screwed up the first hatch and had to fill one set of holes I drilled in the top deck. But, they are hinged and have latches to [...]
October 2, 2008
4/418 Glorious Fall Day
Gorgeous fall day and I spent a few more hours sanding and painting/varnishing. I finished painting the decking and anchor well and the leeboard. Everything dried very quickly as it as 27C or 80F to day…calm, just an unbelievably gorgeous day.
I was able to quickly start sanding the gunwales to get them ready for their [...]
October 1, 2008
3/414 And…Yet More Painting
Today was another warm beautiful day. I came home early hoping to finish off nearly everything.
But, I had a couple of problems…the anchor well and the front decking weren’t finished drying in some spots. I was thinking that maybe I had painted them before the epoxy primer had fully cured and that maybe I [...]
September 30, 2008
4/411 Paintin’
Today I painted nearly everything at least once. I decided to go with all Thousand Islands in the cockpit, decks and wells so I put the first coat on the decks and wells and the second coat in the cockpit. Varnished the mast and tiller, painted the rudder, seats, rudder cheek and one side of [...]
September 29, 2008
4/407 More priming and painting
Today I got Everything covered with at least two coats of primer….well, except for the top of the leeboard that I noticed 30 seconds after having dumped the last little bit of primer Now I’ll have to mix up a small batch just for that spot. Dang!
Put a second coat of varnish on [...]
September 28, 2008
14/403 Sep 27 & 28/2008
The last two days have been busy and productive. The biggest milestone has been epoxying the front decking to the hull. This was a big job requiring lots of clamps and a little resourcefulness. I tried clamping it in place withthe clamps on hand and figured I needed about 4 more of the bar clamps [...]
September 25, 2008
4/385 More Paint & Primer
Today I went straight to Benjamin Moore after work to pick up some paint as I had run out of the white paint I used for the hull and inside the bulkheads. They didn’t have any more white of the type I had used so I picked some paint of the same type to be [...]
September 24, 2008
3/381 Mast Step
Today I used up the rest of the Benjamin Moore white paint putting a second coat on the front compartment.
Next, I mixed up some epoxy and used it to seal the the lead into the rudder. Then I thickened the remainder and used it to fair the top of the sink weight.
Lastly, I epoxied [...]
