Thursday, October 29, 2009

Just a brief update

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The boat is now upright on a combi trailer. I have two tent poles across the boat holding up a Tarp. The inside is now sealed with epoxy. Sa...
Monday, September 28, 2009

Thanks Guys

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It was like a weird and wonderful Team Building Exercise. All we had to do was move the boat from the back garden to the front garden. The b...
Thursday, September 24, 2009

From the Air

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This is from google maps. You can clearly see the blue tarp that covers the boat in my back yard. Yes, it will fit out between the houses. (...
Monday, September 21, 2009

Helpful people

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It's amazing how some people are just so helpful. Take the guys at http://www.chinawindyachts.co.uk/ I needed some stuff in a hurry, no ...
Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Pics

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As promised, pics of the Hull. I have filled and sanded most of the screw holes on the near side in the top pic. And as of about half an hou...
Sunday, September 06, 2009

I no longer feel like a fraud referring to "my boat".

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Sorry there are no pics to go with this, but I finished up working last night, outside under lights at about 11:30pm. It was gluing, screwin...
Monday, August 31, 2009

So close.......

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The last panel is trimmed to fit, it is held in place with screws and plywood washers, and it has had boiling water poured all over it with ...
Sunday, August 23, 2009

burning the midnight oil....

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At about 8pm the kiddies were off to bed, so I nipped out to just sand the chines and keel, ready for a glue up the next night. But that did...
Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Cutting Limbers after the fact.

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I played with a tiny ratchet driver and a 6mm auger drill bit. I clamped a scrap batten to a work bench, and I can make a 6mm hole in the ba...
Sunday, August 16, 2009

Getting there....

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I've started to fit the foreward sections of the hull. Both the aft sections are now glued, screwed, and trimmed (Since I took the photo...
Monday, August 10, 2009

And this is what the inside looks like

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I just held the camera under the boat.The unplaned wood is the building frame and there is an oak plank in the top left corner of the pic.
Sunday, August 09, 2009

Oops

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Remember me posting " Note to self: I still have the limbers to cut ." back about here . Well I was busy congratulating myself on ...
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Thursday, August 06, 2009

1 Aft panel = Two evenings work

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The oak battens, chine and keel that I was going to glue the aft bottom panel to were all tarnished from just being open to the air. It too...
Monday, August 03, 2009

And now the Scarfes are cut

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One thing to note is that if you run the power planer at 90 degrees to the scarf, some of the plies come off as long splinters than quickly...
Friday, July 31, 2009

The front panels are rough cut....

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I spent last night marking up and cutting out the forward part of the panels for the bottom of the hull. I made up some patterns from scraps...

Wiley X Brick RX

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I do like my eyes, not so much the charming boyish blue colour, but rather the whole seeing thing. It's pretty useful. They are however,...
Monday, July 20, 2009

Glen L 14 Sailing Video

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Not mine, though some day I will finish and I will post sailing videos of my own..... This is a Glen L 14 in Vancouver http://www.youtube.co...
Monday, July 13, 2009

The Bottom

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I've started the bottom planking. 2 sheets of 8x4 are now rough cut on the outsides, and fitted at the keelson . You can see the work in...
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Friday, July 10, 2009

I forgot to oil the screws....

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When you put in temporary screws to hold everything together while the epoxy kicks, you really should oil or wax the screws so that the epox...
Thursday, July 09, 2009

Glued and Temporarily screwed in place

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The battens are now glued and temporarily screwed in place. Deck screws, and large washers pull everything together while it all sets up. In...