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Sorry ’bout that.. it’s been slow going but we’ve still made progress here and there.. these are some pictures I took last weekend showing current state of the main hull. I’ll go back to actually updating this when we do work… really.. 🙂 [nggallery id=15]

Apparently I forgot to take any pictures of the mold-plate we used around the forward beam bulkhead to form the uni-directional lamination. It consisted of some very thin wood-laminate from an old cabinet project and on the sharper radius bends towards the bunk-top, some of the black-plastic lawn trim. We did the uni-directional and inside B-spec cloth last night, followed by some sanding/grinding this morning after removing the mold plates. The areas right next to the bunk-top are extremely difficult to laminate, but I think it should hold together just fine.

Been a while… too long… For various reasons there was a pause in boat-building, but hopefully now we’re back. Was a short weekend but got the cockpit panels (wet and dry) laminated and taped in place. Decided on putting the safety compartment on the port side. [singlepic id=33 w=320 h=240 mode=watermark float=] [singlepic id=34 w=320 h=240 mode=watermark float=] [singlepic id=35 w=320 h=240 mode=watermark float=] [singlepic id=36 w=320 h=240 mode=watermark float=]

… or… That’s a lot of fabric! We did the forward side of both forward beam mounts late last night – I don’t have a picture of it due to lighting, but it was a long 3 hours in a pretty cramped space. If you’ve thought about putting in the anchor-well before laminating this area – DON’T! 🙂 I’m very glad we haven’t installed it yet. The following two pictures are of the unidirectional fabrics and compression pad hard-wood.

Been slow going, but I took this week off from work to hopefully get “caught up” on things. Last time we managed to get the forward beam compression area formed up and laminated [singlepic id=26 w=320 h=240 mode=watermark float=] [singlepic id=27 w=320 h=240 mode=watermark float=] This was relatively straight-forward after confirming with Ian that the portion of the former that protrudes into the hull can be sanded more “flush” with the interior before laminating.

These pictures are from two weekends ago; everything has been slow going the past 2 months. Dad had some stuff come up that kept him unable to work on the boat for about 6 weeks. We managed to get this “little” bit done, and now I’ve come down with a nasty case of strep throat for the past week that isn’t reacting to antibiotics so I’m going back to the doctor tomorrow.

I didn’t take as many pictures as I would have liked during the process, mostly because it was with my phone (again… sorry… I’ll remember my camera soon!) Took us a few hours to get the cradles stable and then to level the boat using a series of water-levels (tubes placed at correct points) and then verifying with laser-level. Once that was done, holes were cut. Here’s port-aft : [singlepic id=19 w=320 h=240 mode=watermark float=]

I’d like to take a moment to thank Fred again; not only for showing up at 0800 Saturday morning to help me and dad spin the hull around and get upright, but also letting us utilize his wood-shop for an hour or so later that night when I had the motivation to start building the beam mount jigs and wanted accurate tools for the job. Thanks! The morning started out emptying the garage and dad and I were able to get the main hull spun around some on our own.

Received a call Friday from the freight warehouse saying our crate arrived. The catch is they closed at 5pm and are only open Monday-Friday. With permission from work, I left a few hours early, met dad and went to the warehouse. Within a matter of 10 minutes, we had the beams loaded in the back of my truck and were headed back to the house… Of course, I took no pictures.