2052Hrs – Tumblehomes Sheathed
I seemed to be a bit down on energy today and I wasn’t really in the mood for boatbuilding. No particular reason, just one of those days I guess. Anyway to keep things moving I was...
I seemed to be a bit down on energy today and I wasn’t really in the mood for boatbuilding. No particular reason, just one of those days I guess. Anyway to keep things moving I was...
A really good session today and I sheathed another two forward deck sections, both cabin tops and four tumblehomes. It was hard graft up and down step ladders, clambering around the decks trying not to get...
A four hour session today enabled me to finish the two outboard tumblehome/cabin roof joint strips. Same routine as before, prep sanding, routing a nice round edge on the cabin roof and beam trough edges and...
Time to build is an issue again and one I’m going to address very soon. For today I just sneaked in an hour and got the outboard tumblehome/cabin roof joint of the starboard hull sanded, routed...
The weather has been lousy today, very heavy cloud and regular heavy rain. The temperature was high though and very humid with it. I put in a seven hour session and I think I’m going to...
Other commitments kept me from the build over the weekend but I got a good session in today and finally got the tumblehomes glued in place on the port hull. Enough said about them! I also...
Unbelievably its been over a year since I originally started on construction of the tumblehomes, talk about dragging a job out! Today though I re-cut and re-fitted the ones on the port hull and they are...
I put in a 7 hour day today and feel like I made some really good progress but I’m worn out tonight, as is my belt sander which finally gave up the ghost today after many...
It’s happened again, a little over two weeks just disappeared without a tap being done on the boat. I can look back and say it was unavoidable because we went down to Cornwall for a few...
Once again the income generating part of the Gleda Project is demanding the greater part of my time hence the lack of update yesterday. I squeezed in a couple of hours today though and got the...