WEEK FOURTEEN

A little bit of W.A. in the boat

                                              

Paul was determined to have a little bit of W.A in the boat, so he backed the anchor bridle points with pieces  of W.A. jarrah. Hang the extra weight!!!

Now for an explanation of panels and joining them:

The composite panels are of two types:

1. “Duflex” (structural panels) are made of end grain balsa wood laminated with an epoxy//biaxial E fibreglass skin.

                                             

2. “Featherlight” (non-structural panels) consist of a phenolic impregnated paper-honeycomb core laminated with an epoxy/biaxial E fibreglass skin.

                                             

                                                                   See why it is called a Z joint?

Each panel comes routered to produce the individual shapes which correspond to the assembly instructions in the detailed plans.

This shows a section of a panel containing the daggerboard cases. Each piece is cut out by jigsawing through the remaining sections marked with red circles.

WEEK THIRTEEN

Doors cut from modules.

Making fibreglass sheets for trampoline surrounds.

Striker coved and glassed to the forebeam.

The furniture, the furniture!!

The deck panels waiting to be put in place.

WEEK TWELVE

   

The forestay fitting is glued and glassed to the forebeam.

The tanks are progressing.

The never ending job of coving and glassing goes on.

WEEK ELEVEN

The never ending task of coving and glassing continues.

Marking out the doors on the furniture modules.

WEEK TEN

      

Glassing in the tangs on one side of the rudder and the final product. The glass bearing was moulded around the rudder shaft.

This is our modification to the saloon design.

       

       

All the furniture which has been constructed outside of the hull is dry fitted to check it fits where it is supposed to fit. The mature-aged apprentice has worked on a lot of the furniture.

Starboard cockpit furniture.