First main hull bulkhead

Categories: Main Hull
I know it isn’t much, but I quickly ran out of time this weekend. Here’s a picture from the bow looking forward. Only need to plank a little more and then put the deck foam in place. 2251 Made a simple jig for positioning the aft cabin bulkhead 2248 As you can see, still need to dig out the foam in the access hole and back-fill with bog. Will do that next time a batch is mixed up (most likely when bogging the rest of the foam for the gunwale and deck.

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First section of main hull half laminated

Categories: Main Hull
Just like we thought would happen, we ran out of B cloth last night while laying everything out. Still managed to get a good portion of the half laminated, including all of the aft cabin. Only part that needs glass on it right now is the flat portion at the gunwale, but since we’re out, figure we’ll just go ahead and do that portion in the same shot as the deck.

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Finally back to building

Categories: Main Hull
After some schedule conflicts between me and dad, different commitments and a few stints of traveling out of town for work (with more coming over the course of the next month) – we are finally back to some boat building! 🙂 In my absence, dad has managed to finish planking the hull half from the gunwhale to the keel and we’re just about finished smoothing out the bog…. Am hoping to start putting some fiberglass on later this evening or tomorrow when the temperature gets stable.

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