A new hull for a New Year

Categories: Main Hull
Whew. What a good “vacation” from work the past few days. Have managed to get some work done and things should start getting even more interesting soon! First, a picture of the stack of flat panels for the main hull. Only a few left to make that aren’t needed any time soon. 2165 Even though it’s not as cold down here as it is for you Northerners – the drop in temperature has made the garage cold and epoxy thick.

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Preparing to start the main hull

Categories: Main Hull
Long time since I’ve put anything in here, but due to work commitments, being sick for 2 weeks, and dad going out of town for vacation, not too much has happened lately. Although I don’t have pictures right now (will take some in the next few days) – we are almost finished making all the required flat panels for the main hull. Decided it was best to do all this now while we have the large and flat working area of the strong back before we take away all the garage space with the form frames and hull.

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Two floats….

Categories: Floats Main Hull
are better than one… 2123 2126 This leaves a little extra room in the workshop…. 2116 and after shaving off some of the dried epoxy and fiberglass, we were able to flip the MDF sheets over and have a clean working surface to start tracing out main hull bulkheads 2143 I’m trying some “new” fasteners from the Raptor Nail folks (well, they were a new product when they came out and I bought them… been sitting for a while)

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