Friday, November 11, 2022

Wow

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 Wow, long time no post, but we've been frankly exhausting ourselves with this project.  Lemmessee, where did we leave off? We finally g...
Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Freakin' Epoxy

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  I really hate this stuff We had a few days of decent weather and decent temperatures so we knocked out more of the glass work.  May I say ...
Friday, September 30, 2022

aaaaaand, there's a hurricane.

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 So here we sit in the rain, with Hurricane Ian having just clobbered Florida and the rain headed our way.  We've covered up everything ...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

The discrete charm of fiberglassing

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 . . .or:  Why is everything sticky? Yesterday we started--finally--fiberglassing the seams on the hull.  It actually went pretty well. This...
Sunday, September 25, 2022

Scary day

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 I really wish I had gotten you guys pictures, but I was too busy having a heart attack.  In the midst of the build, the Marina--which has b...
Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Fill and Sand and Tabbycat.

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 It always amazes me how inconstant these builds are.  Some days, you're handling large pieces of wood and they go together into large s...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Sheathed in

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 Well, today at long last we finished sheathing in the hull with plywood.  Due to a combination of lousy wood, warpage, and my generally hor...
Monday, September 19, 2022

By the way. . .

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 The boat has told us her name.  Her name is "Dragonfly," because she'll flit lightly across the water.  Just thought you'...

Missed it by that much. . .

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 Well, I almost called the initial wood order right.  I forgot that I had to use some of the 2X4's as cribbing, so today I'm back of...
Sunday, September 18, 2022

Sheathing

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 We began sheathing the hull today, using tightbond III glue and decking screws. A whole LOT of decking screws.  Guess who's going to Lo...