| 08/10/08 |
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Click on the photos to see larger versions. |
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Building the Shearwater 16. At the end of our previous newsletter, I had just applied a second coat on the cockpit fillets. The adhesive tape must be removed as soon as the joints are re-coated. |
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As soon as the joints don't stick any longer, I go on with fiberglassing the inside of the cockpit. I'll cut the excess cloth with a utility knife after a few hours, it's much easier than waiting for the resin to be fully cured. |
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Only the cockpit area is fiberglassed on the inside. In the fore and aft peaks, it's fiberglass tape which is applied on the joints (which reduces slightly the weight and the trouble to lay the cloth). |
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Opening the Annapolis Wherry kit, which I am soon going to build for a breton customer. The scarf joints have been replaced by new digit joints. |
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I have rounded over the angles of the hatch structure. |
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Hélène came to help me fiberglassing the inside of the deck. Hélène recently built a small airplane out of wood, epoxt, fiberglass and carbon. Building the Mill Creek 13 is going to be easy, so easy! |
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It was a long time that I planned sea trials for the Eastport Pram, which had not touched (French) waters yet. The sun was lacking a bit, but the wing was just perfect on the mouth of the Trieux river! Check out the pictures : my brother Gilles and I had the best time sailing in a very long time with that minimal sailboat. |
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Back to the shop. After a bit of sanding and cleaning, it's time to finally assemble the Shearwater's deck and the hull. |
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This time, I am using adhesive tape to attach the two parts (painter's tape, which does not leave any glue on the support). |
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The edges of the deck must strictly match the hull's before gluing, of course. |
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A view of the inside of the boat during gluing: here is the forward bulkhead seen from the cockpit side after applying the fillets at the hull-deck joint and bulkhead top. |
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View inside the aft peak: I am not finished with the fillets, there is still a foot and a half of fillet to apply on either side. |
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For those who were not sleeping, the two previouspictures were upside down because I have installed the boat in my favorite working position: upside down and higher up. It is way easier to work inside the boat in that configuration. |
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I attached a large syringe at the end of a long piece of plywood scrap. Another piece helps me push the plunger. This high tech tool helps me to lay the epoxy fillets in the peaks. I use a giant tongue depressor (also made of plywood) to finish the joints. |
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The tool in the aft peak. It's rather easy there because the hatch is large enough for me to introduce both my head an one arm. But forward, the hatch is too small to allow more than one arm or the head: I look, I apply a leangth of fillet, I look, and so forth... |
| Back to the future |
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