Softly softly catchee..........

Started filling in the seams with microfibre thickened epoxy. This is a mixture of resin and hardner to which you add microfibres (I think it is milled cotton) until it has the consistency of peanut butter.  I used a plastic spatula to press it into the seam to fill it up and then removed any excess. I was getting a bit too much movement between some of the panels so I have stopped to let it set up and will continue later on when I return from work. I will also post some pics later. 

Hull prepped and ready to be tabbed

 Hi All  been a busy week at work so not much chance to do boat work in the evening. So today I have spent the day fitting the topsides and trimming/aligning all the panels before I tab them up. No real issues although I did have to readjust Bulkhead F a bit more over to one side as I did not line it up correctly the first time. Other than that she went together fairly easily and is pretty fair first time out. 

The last pic was taken upside down before I pulled the bow tight, gaps look ok, one or two spots that are bigger than I wanted them to be but not enough to be concerned about.

And finally a beer at the end of the day to celebrate some good progress.

 

Topsides all glued up

So we have topsides glued up and setting up. Hopefully tomorrow we final trim and start stitching up. 

Top hat, big top..... nope topsides

So topsides  rough trimmed and now we start glueing them together. I am about a day behind where I wanted to be but progress is progress. 

A bit more progress BUT I was caught napping!!!!!

 Hi all, today I started stitching panels to bulkheads. I have managed to get the bottom panel and the two chine panels attached and stitched. Not much effort was needed to get the panels to lay in well next to each other. Some of my gaps are a little large but the stitch and glue method of building is very forgiving with that. More 6mm ply to be ordered on Monday and hopefully next weekend we will have all the hull stitched up and ready to be tabbed up. 

One thing I have learnt the hard way from previous projects is DO NOT LOSE MOMENTUM!!!!! Even if you sand a 4 inch square patch and then stop DO SOMETHING!!! Momentum gives visible progress and that is vital to keeping the project going. Thanks for reading and I will post as soon as I can again.