More Sanding

Hi Guys


Now the tapes off I have to get back to sanding of all the excess glue from the keel and the interior veneers. I used a mouse sander and a long board to fair up.

As promised here are a couple of photos.

KBO

PS

I had a look round a bigger boat probably the last time I'll ever see it.

Finally Got Rid of That Tape

Hi Folks,

Sorry I haven't posted for a long time this working away and commuting home ate the weekend makes it hard to get anything done. I have had a week of for easier and have got a couple of days work o the boat. This entailed using a scraper and a Palm sander to finally remove the tape that has been so hard to remove. Now I need to sand down the inside of the boat with a long board just as I did on the outside. I will take and post some photos tomorrow.

KBO

Disaster

Hi Guy's


Bit of a disaster this week the roof on the garage has been leaking. I knew this but what i didn't know was that the tarpaulin on the boat was leaking so the boat got full of water. I need to keep the moisture content of the timber below 15% to epoxy coat the boat.

Hopefully it will dry out I have tarpaulined the roof of the garage and rerigged the tarpaulin over the boat like a tent flysheet so it will shed the water.

KBO

Springing Leaks

Hi Guy's

No the boat isn't leaking but my garage is. The roof is made of wiggly tin with polycarbinate roof lights. The tin is rusting and the plastic is UV damaged so it's leaking everywhere. Two tarpaulins some battens and rope later the worst of the leaks are stopped. So no work on the boat, there's always something that gets in the way of finishing at the moment. Its a shame as I don't really have much left to do to finish it.

Still its MOT time for my car which is always a bit of a pain as it always needs work.

Hopefully I can get some work don in March.

KBO

Some New Photos

Hi Folks,

I have been doing a bit of work to the boat, mainly scraping and sanding off the tape I put onto the veneers to stop to much glue getting on them. This was a mistake the tape is harder to get of than the glue and it doesn't sand off as well as the glue.

I have also taken a couple of photo's of the support cradle to show how it conforms to the shape of the boat. This was achieved by transferring the contour to the cradle frame using a 3mm thick marking and removing the waste with a spokeshave.

Then marking again and removing more waste until the final contour is achieved.

The sanding is just to remove the tape and excess glue, I will use a long board to final fair the interior after a bit of final fettling of the cradle frames.

That's about it guys.

KBO.

More painting.

Well I finished painting the walls in the garage which has really cut down the dust, so hopefully I can get on with the boat this week.

I have some final shaping to do to the cradle to make sure the boat sits right and is fully supported by all the frames. At the moment the inner of the two rear frames is not touching the bottom of the boat.

The gap is only 2 to 3 mm but to get it to sit down I have mark of the front frames with a marking block and a pencil and take of a small amount of timber at a time with a spoke shave until all the frames make contact. This should cut down the flex went I'm sanding down the inside of the boat.

I'll try to put some photo's on this weekend.

KBO.

Painting

Hi Folks,

I'm gradually sorting out the garage to get a bit more space to work. It has bare breeze block walls and a bare concrete floor that makes a bit of dust. To stop this I'm painting the walls with the cheapest emulsion paint I can find which is magnolia. After living in MQs for years I said I would never paint any building, I owned, this colour but it is cheap. The blocks are soaking up the paint like a sponge but it is cutting down the dust and making the place lighter.

The roofs leaking so I'm keeping the boat under the tarpaulin for now. I really have to get down to sanding out the inside of the hull then fit the deck beams . This should hold the hull in shape.

I'm mainly only working at weekends now because I work away from home during the week. There seems to be a mountain of jobs that stack up in the week which wait until I get home.

My work home life balance is all wrong at the moment , my goal is to sort this out this year one way or another. There is no point earning a good living and providing a good home for your family if your never there to share it with them.

Anyway KBO

Steve.