Fibreglass Prep

The bottom and the first plank are going to be fiberglassed, with 200gm fibreglass cloth.

And then we discovered a half built boat in the garage...

We’re back at it. After a long period of other things taking up the “spare time slot” (namely making a movie for me) we’re back into building a boat.

To get a nice fair curve on the planks, we attached a temporary batten and used a profile cutter on the trusty router.

We’re in the old, sand and fill, rinse repeat stage. And the ugly duckling has a bad case of chicken pox.

The Turning

After working on the boat eight days in a row we finally finished the planking and got her turned over.

Planking Complete

Top Plank

Photos from this week. The top plank, and cutting the gain.

Top Stringer

These photos from May.

Back In The Saddle Again

Progress came to a standstill over summer. We did a little work in May and now we’re really going for it. We got scared when we realised another summer was coming and we could again be on the shore watching.

Before summer we managed to get those difficult bow planks on. Big windlasses and 10mm threaded rod (even some of that got stripped) where how we coped with it.

Since then we’ve been working our way through the planks. We’re on the top one with just the forward section on either side to go. Then we’ll be turning her over to work on the bottom.

Seat End

Not a lot to report on the boat from the last few weeks: non essentials like fences, shade sails, lawns, broken mowers, vege gardens, weeding and those sort of time wasters have been getting in the way.

Got the seat end on though. That's an extension from the plans. We wanted to have more cockpit space, so we moved the thwart forward and narrowed it down.




















Sorry about that bright glare in the first picture but that's what you get on a typical Tauranga afternoon.

Hopefully we'll get that bow plank on this weekend. Had a fairly successful dry fit the other night, involving a windlass and some threaded rod.