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 [...]

12/160 Glassing, Scarfing, Sanding

Saturday, June 7th to Monday June 9th….
I can’t remember everything in order but here is what has been accomplished in the last 3 days…
Glassed the rear well, glassed the bulkheads in the cockpit…leaving only the four seams in the cockpit to complete once the gunwales are on. I sanded lots and lots and lots.

One thing [...]

6/148 More Glassing Continued….

I woke up early in the morning to glass the second compartment. I had it done by 9:30 and headed off to work.
I came home early from work..4ish…to be able to put a fill coat on and to start the rear engine well. I did that and then did some sanding in the front [...]

Monday, May 26, 2008

1/124
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

5/123
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

6/116
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

3/110
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

2/107
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 [...]