Boat construction

A spot of grey paint and some sugar later and the paint job is complete.

Now I have moved on to the next item, a new gantry.

This will be the fourth gantry I have built in the last three years. The last one technically worked really well, and was very low drag but it needed to be replaced because it was heavy, ugly and wouldn’t fit the boat anymore now that I have removed the back beam.

I don’t think that I’ll make the race on Saturday, but I’ll give it my best shot. At least I will get the boat back in the shed and ready to go for the following week.

Original post by Bruce and software by Elliott Back

Original post by Bruce and software by Elliott Back

After another two hectic days of, sanding, sanding, filling, sanding, sanding, filling and more sanding we finally undercoated the hull today. The last two days have really felt like we are chasing our tails where just when you think you are done, you find some where else that needs filling and then the cycle starts all over again.

To get to this stage, we have added about 300 grams of filer, 150 grams of primer and 500 grams of undercoat.

The successes however just keep on coming as after a couple of false starts, we now have a completed set of moulds for the foil horizontals. In the end the total cutting time was about 11 hours, (5.5 hours per side).

I have taken a couple of days off, so the weekend is only half over (yay). Tomorrow’s to-do list is more sanding (boo), building a gantry jig and spraying on the top coats.

Original post by Bruce and software by Elliott Back

Teknologika is almost ready for some colour. There are still a few spots to fill, but apart from those she is ready for undercoating. The photo makes things look worse than they are as most of the “filler” you can see is actually just primer in light surface scratches from when the layers of clear coat were removed.

Original post by Bruce and software by Elliott Back