WEEK EIGHTEEN

    

The dagger board cases were glued and coved. They will next be kerfed and shaped on the daggerboards.

Miss (Ann-Maria) working on the table “torture” board to sand the edges of some of the  furniture doors.

The two sidestay fittings were fitted to the bulkheads and glassed in position with multiple layers of “uni” glass. This picture shows the port fitting being glassed.

        

A great amount of work has gone into coving and glassing the prodder and catwalk in place between the tanks on the D web and the forebeam. The second picture shows the catwalk from the top. The forward end of the boat is really coming together now.

                      

Ongoing all the time is the fairing, fairing, fairing of the furniture modules. These pictures show a small selection of the faired pieces. It has been amazing watching the featherlight furniture modules taking on a more “permanent” appearance as they have been faired. Take a good look at the modified saloon seat. You’d never know now that it was made up from pieces of featherlight not needed elsewhere in the project.

                

Serious work here, late in the week. Fuel leads installed. The left picture shows the diesel fuel lead coming from the fuel tank and going beneath the bridge deck into the stiffeners to the stern. The second picture shows the lead emerging at the stern and heading towards the port motor.

Paul. the first to ”surf” on the catwalk! And rightly so!!

WEEK SEVENTEEN

       

Tank tops being fitted prior to glassing in. The first picture shows a fuel tank lid and the second details the support beneath the lid of a water tank. The third shows tanks glassed

Bridge deck stiffener extensions added, coved and glassed. Good fun glassing upside down!! But then, it couldn’t have been done before because that section curved over the D webs.

                 

                   

The prodder had the inner forestay web glued on, coved and glassed and then was glued into position between the tanks and the forebeam.

   

                    

The door shapes were marked and cut from the modified saloon module.Once the doors had been cut, all the edges had to be rebated and filled with light weight filler to allow the edges to be worked on for a smooth finish (not possible with the impregnated paper core remaining) A veritable coving fest!

Initial dry fitting of the catwalk.

            

Fairing the galley. Note the space marked for the stove.

    

Paul was apprehensive about cutting his first hole in the hull. It will be the water inlet for the toilet.The hole is cut through the internal glass layer and the balsa, but does not go right through the hull yet to allow for the hole to be bogged up and a final smaller hole cut through the bog and the outer skin of the hull. 

WEEK SIXTEEN

           

Work on the furniture continues at all times, with extra shelves in the modified saloon module and light weight filler applied to and faired on the cockpit furniture.

The extensions to the bridge deck stiffeners are added.

            

Views of the dashboard, the high one taken from the forebeam.

          

The rudder bearing is glassed in, the rudders are finished and placed in position, with a little tilting of the boat!

                            

I’ll check whether this beam is strong enough and while I’m here, I’ll take a funny picture of the striker.

WEEK FIFTEEN

                                                           

The dashboard was installed above the two bedrooms.

                      

The cockpit furniture was taken off the boat for coving and glassing.

In preparation for making a new rudder, a layer of clear resin is laid on each side of the mould.

                                              

The first hole in the hull – the saildrive leg hole, and the second – the hole for the rudder shaft.

The engine bed is coved into the hull.

                                              

The trampoline surround is glued to the forebeam and the beam is lifted into place.