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With the boat completed and ready to be launched, all that remained was a long and frustrating wait for a trailer to be completed. And long and frustrating it was. But all things (good and bad) come to an end and so finally dawned the day when then trailer was to arrive and the boat […]
The construction time was right around 480 hrs. The rigging was another 40 hours. The whole boat does not contain a piece of wood. It is all composite foam core/fiberglass/carbon panels (proset epoxy/vacuum bagged). I stretched it to 19’9″ LOA. The hull weighed in at 860lbs. I was pretty conservative in the amount of fiber […]
Latex Paint for Boats by Dave Carnell When I bought my first yacht (27′ auxiliary sloop) for $300 in 1951 I quickly learned that if it’s for a boat, the same material costs several times as much as if it is for your house. Oakum was $1/lb. at the marine supply store compared to five […]
Using the Versatile Block Plane Roundovers Edges are simple to shape with the block plane. For chamfers less than 1/8″ you can usually eyeball the cut as you move the plane along the edge of the board. For wider chamfers, first draw a layout line on the workpiece as a guide. Flush Trimming There […]
With the interior carpentry completed, everything was removed so that pieces of plywood could be sent off to the trimmers to be made into real seats and large numbers of ceiling planks varnished. With the insides of the boat once more accessible, flotation foam was installed. In Australia, there is a statutory requirement for flotation […]
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