Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Fillets and details

Used up a bunch more epoxy and 407 filler filleting all of the inside corners as well as the chines on the boat.  I need to learn a good mix for this.  Some ration of cabosil for sure.  I had a lot of sag and now it's a bit of a sanding nightmare.  Finally fund a good wire cone brush to put in my drill, and that's getting into the crannies pretty well to rough it all up for primer.  None of this is really structural, just looking for a good longterm seal to avoid moisture and dirt getting into the crannies to start rot.  Thank god I'm happy with a workboat finish.

I also got the rudder head laid out along with the pintles and gudgeons.  Cut the hole in the transom for the tiller.  made and installed the mast step.

I was going to tabernacle the mast.  Thought the better of it and just went with the simple original design.  Seeing as how I'm doing the slot top cabin with the "drop board" center window in front, It'll be plenty easy to step and unstep the mast from in the boat.

The 3 things I have left before starting to paint the interior are
Install the exterior "bash wales"
fabricate and install the leeboard guards
Install the cross framing for the cabin top and cut out the windows in the sides.

Not necessarily in that order.

God I'm sick of sanding already.  Even for a workboat finish there's a ton of it.

I'm also pretty sure that the next one is going to use no epoxy.


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