Both Sides Rough Sanded.

Hi Guy's

well got both sides rough sanded. I can see some areas of coarse grain and some low spots but I don't want to sand any further until I've used a chalk stick to check for fair. I have noticed that at the sheer between the clamps that the hull is springing out this could effect the final fairing. I am going to trim the excess veneer back flush with the bottom riband of the mold and use scrap battens to clamp the hull to the bottom riband. This should provide an even clamping pressure which should get rid of this ripple effect. The bottom riband is set two inches below the sheer riband to give a good overlap for final fairing.

Apart from this the hull is starting to look quite good now.

More sanding

Hi folks



Well I have one side of the boat rough sanded finished it yesterday, don't want to go to mad might take too much off. Didn't take any photos to intent on getting the job done. Got the the other side to do yet its alot easier with the sander but still took three days.

Started Rough Sanding.

Hi Guy's

As you can see I've started sanding the boat this started out by hand but it was taking too long and driving me round the bend so I am now using my sander. The gougon brothers book says you should only do this if your experienced with power sanders. So practiced with scrap pieces of veneer then cracked on with the boat. As you can see from the other photo its coming up quite well. I'm using 80 grit disks to rough finish and fair then probably 120 and 240 gite to finish sand I'm not sure yet.

Jollyboat website.

Hi Guys,

I found the new jollyboat forum the other day quite by accident. I was looking for a friends car blog in google and it wasn't coming up so I put my own blog in just to see if it wasn't finding any blogs or just his and the search results came up with my blog name. I clicked it thinking it would take me here and it took me to this new site by the CVRDA and they were taking about my boat cool!

I started this blog because I had had a bit of interest after I had sent some photo's to Tony Dixon just to show him what I was doing with his plans. I joined the CVRDA forum so I could get a bit of help when I'm not sure what the plans are getting at. Anyway after a while it went a bit quiet so it was a bit of a boost to find out there was some interest in by boat and people had been watching my blog while I had been beavering away on my boat.

Anyway great website lots of good photo's which were a great help to me.

Veneering is finally finished.

Hi folks

well I have finally finished fitting the last veneers over the last two days. I pulled the stapling strips of today and planed and sanded the transom rebate flush to the veneers.

Its only rough finished but it looks really good see what you think from the photo's.

Well the next job now will be to make a 6' chalk stick to find the high spots and then flat them down. Then fill the staple holes, final finish sand before fitting the keel and stem caps.

Stern Almost Finnished.

Well I have made a fair bit of progress this week I am almost at the transom. I'm into my last two sheets if I keep the wastage down I should be able to finish this layer with the veneer I have left. The next two veneers should show if the material I have left is enough.

So I might not have gone wrong just cut it a bit close

well we'll see....