This is my first attempt at doing a video journal of my workin’s in the Big Blue Boat Building Shed. It’s also the first time I’ve taken my GoPro camera into the shed. For some reason the audio didn’t record (Doh!) so I had to caption it after. It work…
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A blessing and a curse
When we put the shed up we didn’t have much storage space for some of the bigger items, seats, hot water heater etc. I put up a shelf along the south side of the shed to get some of these bigger items out of the basement.You can see it on the upper lef…
I’ve got RIPPLES!
I’ve got RIPPLES!These showed up after I removed the peelply from the port side we did on Saturday. I’ve sanded the tops off of them, do I need to go deeper and totally get rid of them? I’m afraid of going too far and sanding away good fiberglass. …
Still making progress
Pulled the rest of the peelply off from Saturday’s workin’s.The results are better than the other side I did myself. There’s only a few minor bubbles to fix.Still had a bit of a problem with the poxy trying to bleed out. This time it set before it got …
Getting caught up a bit
Got a little behind with my posts. Sorry. Saturday my buddy Jim came over to help out with the epoxy work on the stbd side. Jim’s a great guy. He built himself a huge Bruce Roberts in steel about 20 years ago. Tide Rider!Being an ex-school teacher he w…
Well that was less than ideal
Went out to the shed to check the results of yesterdays workin’s. I’d say it’s a little disappointing.The lighter spots are ‘dry’ (little or not ’nuff epoxy). I also noticed areas where the epoxy was bleeding through the peel ply.I’m guessing that it w…
I don’t know how I did it
but I managed to piss away almost an entire week of boatbuilding. The weather likely played a part in it and some indecision on helpers etc. So today I got off my arse and decided to tackle one side.6. 1/2 hours33’8″ of 1808 biaxial fiberglass3. 5 gall…
Glass and yet more glass
Got the glass laid out on the starboard side. Forward looking aft. It’s tight so hard to get a good pic.Aft looking forward.This mornings plan was to build a portable carrier for my vacuum generator.And the mess of tools needed to built it! *lol*Took a…
That’s a lotta glass!
33′ 8″ long! SO BIG it takes two pics and you still can’t see it all!Looking forward Looking aftLooking down the side from the transomLooks like it’s going to be another sticky day in the ole’ boat shed tomorrow! 
Freakin’ Brrrrrrrrrr!
Ok Mother Nature. That’s ’nuff foolin’ around! Warm it up a lil’ bit would you please?I guess I wasn’t kidding about the monsoon season having arrived. Cold too. Only 5 Deg C in the shed this morning. A degree or two colder and we could have expected s…
