Post-weekend report 1

So my goals were:

1) Fiberglass the inside centerboard trunk. - Completed
Bonus points for the following:
            a) Glue spacers in
            b) Glue centerboard trunk together

No bonus points as I'm not sure if I could sand on Sunday as I put on the last coat at 7:30ish Saturday night.

But on Sunday I did take the time to visit the hardware store and buy some closet hanger thingys, and rod to hang the fiberglass. Ended up putting it on the garage wall as it is a little over 4 feet wide and the epoxy command station is a little over 2 feet wide.

Then to get the fiberglass rod mounted I needed to reclaim some of my garage space. Per pocketship.net CLC recommends storing flat instead of vertical. So out comes another folding table into my back guest bedroom. I cut all remaining parts out of the plywood (soooo tired) and moved them back there. Then once that was moved I leaned the cradle MDF (uncut) against the wall and all the scrap plywood as well. Then mounted the fiberglass onto the wall up and out of the way.

Monday night is finishing up the weekend house cleaning, vacuum and sweeping all the saw dust I dragged in! and then sweeping up the garage and using my shiny new shop vac!

Next weekends goals:

1) Cut the centerboard trunk spacers
2) Glue them in place
3) Complete the centerboard trunk
Bonus points for the following:
           a) Glue the keel / keelson fore and aft puzzle joints
           b) put in the keel spacers
           c) Put the entire thing together

I hope to have the amount of wood I need figured out by Tuesday, then Wednesday I will visit the world famous Houston Hardwood and pickup a nice piece of spruce. Then Thursday get it cut to shape and start gluing it to one side of the centerboard Friday night.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

So it begins

Image
I sit at my job daydreaming about sailing around the world. I'm tired of 290 traffic, I'm tired of working weekends. I long for the silence of the ocean, the youtube videos that are my favorite have no sound but the wind, waves and gentle tapping of the rigging. I have never sailed in my life, I have never even been on a boat bigger than my dads 20 foot jet boat. Yet as I watch all these youtube videos of people sailing around, some have issues, some appearing to be high and drunk but all of them sailing. I have set a date. I will quit whatever job I am working at on Aug 1st 2027 and I will sail around the world. So I start with the basics, I read and watch and research all these different people sailing around and recording it. I compare their boats, I research the costs. I see what I need. Funny thing is it just appears you need a will to do it. Sell everything, buy a boat and just go! I would have but I have a daughter so I make a 10 year plan instead. 1) At the en...
Read more

Read the instructions three times, measure 47 times, cut once or twice

Image
This weekend was about putting it ALL together. All being the keel. I have never in my life been so scared. It started out in a good way, I dropped my centerboard trunk into place, trimmed and adjusted my nose block made a nice little piece of wood to fit between the nose block and centerboard trunk. I was ready to epoxy and this was Saturday morning! First thought that went through my mind is that I am getting REALLY good at this boat building thing, the second was Dunn and Kruger . So I stopped boat building for a few hours, went out spent some time with the first mate looking for important items like LOL Suprise Dolls (didn't find any) then came back. On my return I found the following: The centerboard trunk was reversed, easy fix. The cool dove tail at the rear end of the keel pushed everything forward by 1 centimeter. Not so easy, but not hard. There are these cool holes in the side of the keel that tells you if you fucked up, lucky I found them before I fucked up. S...
Read more

Freezing weather sickness and.. progress!

Image
So Houston decided to drop into the low 40's! My garage is not insulate so no boat building that weekend. I did manage to glue up 2x6x18 blocks of wood that became my nose block during the week. I also researched the best way to make the rear aft blocking. It is starts out at 1-3/4" and tapers down to 3/4". After some friendly advice and some YouTube searching I found how to assemble a cheap and easy taper jig, using 2 blocks of wood and few screws. Here is the Link to that. So when Saturday morning came I was up and attacking the boat build. Fully covered in bug spray (DAMN YOU BUGS!) and chopping wood. I started with the tapered rear aft blocking. Starting with constructing the jig and running a few pieces of scrap wood through as tests I was ready to chop. Cutting the first side and was super easy, then about 1/2 way thought the cut on the second side I thought I messed up the cut. I was kinda disappointed but decided to try the pattern verse the cut wood and to...
Read more