Sand, sand and sand :)

Hull is glued together and now I'm in the hull sanding phase which means lots of sanding. The progress is rather slow as I don't also have too much time to spend for sanding, Still I hope to get it ready during July. If I have time and possibilities some pics will also come soon.

Epoxy :P

Got the long awaited epoxy now. I'll use West System 105 resin with 206 hardener (slow). The 'kicking' time should be 20-30min at 18 C. Now I have probably have to wait for the weekend to start gluing.

Planking

It looks like that I don't have any pictures of first planking steps - installing the sheer and keel strips, but as the boat started to look more and more like a boat I have taken more pics of the WIP.The bow and stern were the hardest parts. I had to struggled some time to get them look nice enough. Still at the end I think I got them to acceptable level.





Finally even the bow looks more or less OK :)


So the next step will be doing some final touches for getting everything as smooth as possible and gluing with epoxy. I also have to get some epoxy for that :)

Strongback with station molds

By the time posting this entry about a months has passed from actually building the strongback and aligning the station molds. Aligning the molds was quite tricky, first it was hard to get even a flat surface but also 3D alignment was difficult and took about a day for a beginner like me. At the end I just took a spirit level and aligned the molds one-by-one based on design waterline marks and by eye at other directions. Here's some pics also.

Molds

Finally molds are all cut out:) The quality is...the best I can do at the moment ;) Still they look symmetrical enough plus the strips bend will probably correct some of the unevenness.

Aft molds...
and front molds. Sad thing is that on Sunday its impossible to get planks for the strongback, so next steps have to wait...

Strips and molds

Finally after the winter things are moving on. Actually the strips were cut already in autumn 2007 but as there was not place where to build in the cold then things game into a halt for the winter. Strip quality is not the best but hopefully theres enough good ones in the pile that I can use.

Yesterday I draw down the molds onto a piece of sawdust plate (hope it's called so). And started cutting the molds. But as I had a really cheap saber saw the gearing inside broke. I managed to cut only 8 molds out of 12. Today I'll try to get a new saw and continue the job. Hope to get some pics also here soon.