It’s taken four weeks to complete all the coving in the corners. Now it’s done we've glued on the coaming stringer. (We didn’t want it to get in the way before.)
We’ve gave the whole cockpit a coat of epoxy resin, and two coats on high wear areas like floor, seat tops and seat fronts. This is really hard and should protect the timber as well as being a great primer.
Joe dries the boat after scrubbing the amine blush off from the epoxy.
The framing is all ready for the deck to go on. I’ve planed the gunwale and coaming stringers down.
Navigator S is a John Welsford designed 4.5m dinghy built in Tauranga, New Zealand. The S for Sports represents the racing rig option and a few ‘go faster’ modifications we've made. The builders were Luke (22), Zac (16) and Roy (the Dad).
We started building in May 2005. Work has been done on-and-off, on weeknights and Saturdays. She was launched on 19 January 2008.
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'Chirp' my recently sold Starling dinghy - 'Pilgrim' our first building effort, a Firebug - 'Windhook' Dad's Frostply - and a Chesapeake 16 Kayak I built
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