The work continues...

Its funny how we peck around at completing our projects...  Do any of you wander out to the garage/"boat shop" to check on your baby before you go to your "real" jobs, or only manage to get out there late at night when you are really supposed to be inside with your significant other - not enough hours in the day!

 

Tonight I finished shaping and dry fitting the deck beams and installing the breasthook.  I always take great pleasure when I actually do something right the first time , you know, no corrections or throwing something on the burn pile.  The breast hook plate is made from a hefty chunk of seasoned true 2 x 10 white oak - I just added 3# to the bow of the sailboat!!!

 

Anyhow, I am waiting for a warm day to prime and paint the interior so I can fit the coaming and seats - another trip to the wood pile to see what I have on hand.  Any one have any experience using redwood for seats and such.  The original directions from E Monk call for cedar (I actually might have some cedar out there too).  As a side note, a lot of my 3/4" stock comes from my old greenhouse benches.  Lightly planed, It looks almost as good as new.  When I get some film I'll snap some pics of the current work...

 

Where are all of you at?

 

Andy

following the building of two Kayaks

Hi guy's I have just finished reading http://members.aol.com/oldspeedy/Page2.htm
It's about a couple building two Kayaks lots of step by step pictures with informative and funny text wourth a look I think,
and if anyone has any similar site please post them, as this is what I love looking at,thanks
bogs.

Just wanted to say hi to everybody

Been over a year since I've been in here, Hurricane Rita pretty much destroyed us, and the boat we were building. Plan on starting another one soon, but not until after hurricane season.

I'm glad this site is still here, we enjoy seeing the boats everybody else is working on.

May the wind be at your back and the seas ahead calm...


Captain Scott & Gayle

LOST CONTACT

Kruez,

 

Having lost my job of 35 years and now I find I don't receive any e-mails from the group. I need to change my primary e-mail address to receive mail at home. Can you advise how to do this?

 

Don

End of Summer

 

How was everybody's summer?

 

Do anything worth sharing with the group?

 

Hope you had a pleasant boating season.

 

-Kruez-

 

 

primer coat peeling a bit...

Now that I have my sailboat hull in a dry garage.  I have noticed that the primer coat I put on last summer is peeling in spots.  Also, the fiberglass strips I placed on a couple of the scarf joints are loosening.

 

What do I do now.  Sand the whole hull down and reprime?  Totally strip all of the priming off and reprime?  I will replace the fiberglass no matter what.  I originally went with the fg strips because I couldn't afford to glass the entire hull...  Now I am thinking about "biting the bullet" and glass the whole hull.  Can I go over the primer coat or should I sand down to bare wood to get the best adhesion of epoxy to wood?

 

Any suggestions are welcome.

 

I am just about done fileting the entire hull interior - thank God!  Then I can prime and paint the interior and get busy on decking, seats, etc.

 

Andy

New - Old - Bandsaw

An older friend of mine has made available to me an 18" bandsaw that has been sitting in the basement of a rental unit he owns.  25+ years ago he paid  $125 for it at an auction.  He now just wants to get it out of this building as the apartments have been sold. 

He said I could have it for whatever price I wanted to offer, so we agreed on $100 as I have to still get this massive piece out of the basement.  He is throwing in another more modern 10" bandsaw with a few parts missing and an antique Singer tredle sewing machine (can't tell the condition under all of the dirt/dust).

So you can imagine that I am very happy...!