More 'lots of little jobs' culminating with planking the hull which seems to me like a big turning point in the building process.
Making some deviations from the typical build which included:
- Glassed the floors and footwell as added protection.
- Glassed inner surface of two forward most garboard plank for added strength as it feels like these areas will be the 'first on the scene' of any bumps or collisions.
- Planning to add 15" wide stern lazarette between the seats with rectangular hatch
- Adding small hatch to access watertight area between bulkhead seven and stern and sealed the bulkhead.
- Added hatches to inside of bulkhead four to access and vent under seat compartments.
- Decided to keep seat tops hatch free for cleaner lines and sitting comfort. This is a big decision but upon reflection I think the storage will not be necessary for my style of sailing especially when the other available storage in taken into consideration. Hatches can always be added later.
- Trying the oil based Tremclad rust paint for locker surfaces. Other builders have been very happy with this product.
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| Finishing the ballast tank and adding 6 mm doubler to the footwell floor; drain hardware installed |
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| Drilling the holes for the bow U-bolt; now that's a drill bit! |
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| Bow and stern transoms inplace |
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| Everything fits together beautifully |
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| Farley checking on quality and progress |
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| Fir deck supports installed |
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| Garboard strakes glued up |
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| Glassing floor and 1.5" up the sides of footwell |
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| Engine mount doubler cut out and attached |
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| Cut outs to fill and seal the aft bulkheads |
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| Filling in bulkhead seven hole to create small, separate, water tight compartment |
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| Port garboard strake going on |
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| Copper wire stitches and clamps - not pretty but getting job done |
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| Garboard strake stitched and glued with small regular fillet tabs |
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| After wire and clamps removed tabs hold strake in place for fillets and glass tape |
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| Holes in bulkhead four cut and hatches dry fitted |
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| Hatch holes cut and latches dry fitted in forward floor |
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| Thought I would give this a try for this interior of forward lockers |
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| Two coats of Tremclad light grey - very pleased with results |
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| Second row of planks when on without drama |
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| Cheers! |
