The 'turning point' for my build happened this month with the flipping of the hull.
It is all about glassing, fairing and sanding. Pretty straight forward if at times tedious.
Fabricated the skegs from the bottom 3/4" plywood panel of the building jig.
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| First coast of deck and cockpit paint - Interlux Brightsides Grand Banks Beige (looks greenish in this pic) |
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| Flipped! |
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| Supported by two B&D Workmates |
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| Guess this will be cut up for the fireplace.... but wait...those curves... |
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| Firewood for sure |
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| Trimming the CB trunk posts |
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| Gluing up the rudder cheeks |
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| Trimming the dowels. These sure make the alignment a breeze |
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| Fairing the chines |
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| Adding a 3/8" radius to inside of CB case for the glassing to come |
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| Let the glassing begin - 2" extra tape on chines |
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| Well I know these fit - longitudinals from jig used for template |
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| Transposed the saw lines from the plans to make template |
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| Transcribed lines from template to 3/4 ply bottom of building jig |
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| Cut out four pieces and laminated into two skegs |
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| Glassing bottom |
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| Skegs test for fit |
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| Glassing fist plank and epoxy sealing the others |
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| All manner of weights used to glue down the skegs |
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| Skegs glued down, filleted and taped |
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| Farley and I discovered an ancient and long forgotten apple tree on our beach walk... |
