We finished work with the boat about two hours ago. Three last days were rather intense building, to the effect that we dreamed about epoxy, wood and paint. Long list short: seats installed and seat lockers painted, stringers beveled and taken off for easy access to the interior, started construction of shelves and the rudder, completed two watertight compartments with inspection hatches. Of course there are also the little things, such as filleting, glassing, drinking coffee at the shop, discussing plans and all that which takes time.
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- A fine picture, Joosep grinding down some metal on the fresh benchtops.
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- One of the inspection ports. The lid screws off counterclockwise. This is straight under the mast. In the plans, the water goes here.
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- Uku glassing shelves.
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- A good view of what the interior looks like when entering from above.
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- The footwell is now covered, in there is an inspection hatch to the double floor. Buoyancy compartments are on the left and right side of the well.
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- A close up of the “Made in China” inspection port. This is in the aft watertight compartment. Nothing to inspect yet: blue foam, hard epoxy and expanded foam.
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- Joosep used the floor as a “canvas”. Laying out the windows and investigating what geometry should our sheet of polycarbonate have. Turns out that that stuff is expensive. Initial waste percentage planned: roughly 20 %.
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- Cutting section walls for the shelves is an exercise of analytical geometry with hardware applications. Took 2 hours to measure out one sheet. It did not come out perfect, but good enough. Later on that.
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- Initial setup of the rudder. Next: need more hardwood for laminating the tiller area, need some threaded bar to tighten all the planks when laminating, need a sharper plane. Plus there is the question of rudder hinges. We have still not found any feasible solution in webstores. Feels like it is going to be DIY. Oh yea!
