Weelll, what a job. Fitting, glassing and sanding the stanchion bases. I have seldom crawled around on my hands and knees for soooo long. It took so long, by the time I set up all the rails and pulpit, screwed the stanchion bases in place, removed the rails and pulpit, "high strength" filleted the bases on, checked it all again before glassing the bases on, and finally sanded after the glassing it took the best part of 2 days (with a couple of little jobs in between). But it all came up perfect, the shape should look good when they are faired in.
I did a final sand of all the last glassing jobs I did over the last couple of weeks and then Sandy's job was to give everything a really good vacuum. Weelll that took forever, she didn't realise that the sanding dust gets everywhere.
I have nearly finished the "last" construction job, and that is the cabin roof. It is really nice to go back to strip planking, this time round it goes together very quickly, a couple of hours and it was over 1/2 done.
Once that is completed then it is a "quick" fair, paint and fit (and refit) all the fancy bits and we are FINISHED........ Sounds easy and quick, but will take a while yet.
Weelll, what a job. Fitting, glassing and sanding the stanchion bases. I have seldom crawled around on my hands and knees for soooo long. It took so long, by the time I set up all the rails and pulpit, screwed the stanchion bases in place, removed the rails and pulpit, "high strength" filleted the bases on, checked it all again before glassing the bases on, and finally sanded after the glassing it took the best part of 2 days (with a couple of little jobs in between). But it all came up perfect, the shape should look good when they are faired in.
I did a final sand of all the last glassing jobs I did over the last couple of weeks and then Sandy's job was to give everything a really good vacuum. Weelll that took forever, she didn't realise that the sanding dust gets everywhere.
I have nearly finished the "last" construction job, and that is the cabin roof. It is really nice to go back to strip planking, this time round it goes together very quickly, a couple of hours and it was over 1/2 done.
Once that is completed then it is a "quick" fair, paint and fit (and refit) all the fancy bits and we are FINISHED........ Sounds easy and quick, but will take a while yet.
