With the bottom hull panels now fully stitched to the keelson and to each other at the bow, the floors and bulkheads can go in. First, floor 4 & bulkhead 7 are fit and glued to the centerboard trunk. Those pieces fit to the trunk in just one way, and they will serve as good […]
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Stitching the Bow
Bringing the two bottom hull panels together at the bow was a bit of a chore. A note about the image at the top of this post : All those bulkheads are not glued in at this point. I just had them sitting there for dry fitting. Pulling the Bow Tight In short, I did […]
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Hull – Dry Fit
Before fully stitching, I quickly threw together the hull bottoms, floors, and bulkheads with just a few wires. No other reason than just to see what it looks like. It’s been a year of nothing close to resembling a boat. Following Brent and several others, I’ll be holding off on the hull sides until the […]
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Laying the Keel
After just over a year of building, the keel will finally get laid. My spars are completely finished and many smaller steps are complete much earlier than in the manual sequence. So I’m hoping all of that will pay off in less crawling around in cramped spaces, etc. My oldest daughter helped me place the […]
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Completing the Spars
I had expected to be at this point back in February but issues with varnish have delayed me. As it turns out, the varnish issues led to my being able to go back and apply a stain to all the spars, which I am very glad to have done. Each spar was treated as follows: […]
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Stain
As mentioned in a previous post, my first coat of varnish on this build failed to ever cure. As it happens this was fortuitous since I wasn’t really fond of the natural color of the spars. Since I needed to eliminate the epoxy substrate as the cause of the tacky varnish, I was going to […]
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The Wilderness
This post is being written on May 11, 2023. Since early January my build has been all over the place. My keel was ready to go and my spars were all cut and sanded, ready for epoxy and varnish. My spars were taking up the room I needed to build the hull, so I was […]
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Keel – Aft Cap / Keelson
The manual illustrates placing a piece of wood on top of the aft section of the keel and then tracing the shape from the underside. I guess you would then make a bunch of 1/4″ marks to the inside of those lines and join those marks up to make your cut lines. All this to […]
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Keel – Lead Ballast
Poured lead for the keel this weekend and all went well. I’ll relate a few things that I learned or that I haven’t heard mentioned before. First, I had a couple of buddies come help and that made a big difference. When I poured the centerboard a few months ago there were just two of […]
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Keel Cleanup Part I
After the complete glueup, I stood it up on the bench and stared at it for 10 minutes. Then I flipped it over and sanded the very bottom. The outer edges got a 1/2″ roundover per the manual and I gave the inside trunk edges a 1/8″ pass, just enough to take the edge off. […]