Foredeck number 2

As the deck goes on it is starting to look like I have a catamaran in my garage.

It's over

The starboard hull is finally the right way up. I had the help of a friend today to do it and it was a fairly easy two person job. Have not weighed it yet but feels light. The port hull was 88Kg at this stage.

I also took the opportunity to remove and dismantle the bulkhead supporting frame. No more hulls to build! This will help a lot keeping the floor clear and working around the boat easier especially now as there is not so much room.

It is so cool now having the hulls up and side by side.

Just enough

I had just enough 2 part primer left over from the last round of painting to do the bottom paint. I had to scrape the last out of the tin but got there in the end. Then over that with some top coat.

In this photo you can see the back of the filled hole where the rigging bolt is in the bow.

Pretty much ready for turning over now.

Dusty

Dusty, is what my garage has become building this boat.

Here it is glassed, filled and faired, almost ready for paint on the bottom.

More Glass

Time to layer on the cloth again.
I had to buy some more cloth. But should have enough now to finish the boat.

I am getting better at this than when I started for sure. Again finding it is so important to lay out and press the cloth into it's location before applying resin. This time around I am actually enjoying doing the fibreglass because I have learned what not to do.

Another trick this time around can be seen below. I tilted the hull over when doing this side to make applying the resin easier.

Long panel

I have made the long piece which forms the bottom of the inner wing. It is about 6 metres long using scarph joins and kind of looks like a big wooden banana.
Here you can see it upside down to get an idea of the curve involved.

This is actually an earlier photo which shows that I glued the scarph joins with it in place to get the curve just right and used some plastic film to stop it sticking to the hull so I could later remove it to fair the edge where it meets the hull.

And here is the final result. The board has been glued in place. Then the big fillet join added.
Also all the screw holes have been filled and the hull routed and faired, ready for fibreglass.

As you can see the port hull caught a hail of wood chips from the fairing of the hull. Looking forward to getting this hull up the right way to see them side by side.

Inner panels

I have the inner panels on now.

You can see in these photos that the panels are oversize, it is a quick job to sort this out later. You can also see a bit of the glue squished out. I like to see this as it means I used enough!

One thing which you can see in the next photo is that my garage is getting very messy. Time for a clean up maybe.

The build is going slow and steady. Each panel was done in a separate session, each one probably took about 3 hours to measure, cut and glue. My time is still very limited but I feel this build method works well for me because I can divide the building jobs up into very short time periods. Sometimes I only get a 1/2 hour work session but I can still do something useful in that time like cut out a panel or make some measurements.