John's Blog
I usually try for Thursday or Friday for each weeks post, but I’m a day or two early this week. Painting is happening. Yeehah! Not far to go now. When painting, the undercoat tends to show up all the nasties, the blips and bumps that should have been sanded out...John's Blog
But its not a complete loss of time. Its Thursday evening, I’m still house sitting my sisters house up in the bush at the top of the hill. This ia a very peaceful place, and I’ve been able to spend some time working on the drawings for both SEI and the Saturday...John's Blog
I’ve been working away in the shop, fitting the seat tops and filleting them, turning the offcuts into doublers under the edges and sanding out the odd dribbles of epoxy, read on. Blog 4 September Its getting close, today I fitted the forward seat...John's Blog
The big day has come. Well, a slightly bigger day than some! Its been a bit warmer of late, about 17 deg C here this afernoon and with primer paint on and sanded it seemed like a good idea to paint the outside of SEI’s hull. Resene make really good...John's Blog
Beefing up the mast. Chuck Leinweber at Duckworksmagazine.com has been using a woven fiberglass sleeve to reinforce the wooden masts he’s made for the various boats he’s built. As far as I know he’s been using fairly cheap lumber for the birdsmouth system spars, and...
