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| Date / Time | Hours | Activity |
| 4th July, 2001 | 1 | Marking out frames #3 not done! |
| 14th | 3 | setting up frames. Use 2 water levels and a bucket, centre
string as close as possible to frame edge |
| 16th | .5 | gluing strongback to floor |
| 17th | 5 | levelling frames, planking,(poorly). Ensure wood is same width and edges smooth |
| 18th 9:30 - 4 | 6.5 | planking, beware edge set on planks |
| 19th 9-5 | 8 | planking, looking pretty awful, needs another frame at reverse curves |
| 20th 9:30-5:30 | 8 | planking, edge set self curing |
| 21st 2 - 5 | 3 | machine sanding, looks reasonable except at the reverse curves. More frames would make for easier sanding |
| 24th 9.30-2.30 | 5 | glassing and bogging. Looks good. 1st litre of resin thrown out due to scales. Check if cured |
| 25th 10.30-5.30 | 7 | Removed hull, ground and glassed half inside. Not bad. Maybe40 kgs Half joined 9mm and 6mm ply for bunk base |
| 26th 9.30-1.30, 4-6 | 6 | Planked 80% of 2nd half (3/4 closer to actual) of hull. Spot glued planks. |
| 27th 2-6.30 | 4.5 | finished planking |
| 28th 3-4 | 1 | removing screws, cleaning up |
| 29th 9.30-3 | 5.5 | glassed outside hull, inside hull and ply joins |
| 30th 10.30=4.30 | 6 | Glassed inside half hull and hatch area. Plotted lee hull stations. Need to redo them and lengthen and relocate the strongback. Dickhead |
| 31st 9.30-6 | 8.5 | cut frames, changed strongback, set up frames for lee hull. Weather hull cleaned up |
| 1st August 9,30-6.30 | 9 | Trimmed weather hull, looks good. Started planking, edge set a big deal, lots of stealers needed. |
| 2nd 10-3.30 | 5.5 | 3/4 planked half hull. |
| 5th 10-4.30 | 6 | finished planking |
| 6th 9,30-12, 2-5 | 5.5 | Glassed half, looks ok given size of flat panel. Need runnier bog for planks. joined ww hull 200mm db, 500 wide uni across join |
| 7th 10-12, 2-5-6 | 6 | Glassed inside half hull. Set up bunk floor and rough cut frames. Tricky putting it all together. |
| 8th 12-7.30 | 7.5 | Set up bunk tops. Flat, looks awful |
| 9th 9-5,.30 | 8.5 | Planked bunk top, looks worse. Cut bulkheads. Hull spread 70 mm. |
| 11th Saturday 1-5 | 4 | Glassed bunk roof, cut scarphsfor 2 nd lee hull half |
| 13th Monday 9.30-.30 | 7 | Half planked half hull, chopped extra piece of seat out, started on rudders, made 1/3rd round tube. 2 hours wasted |
| 14th Tues 10-6 | 8 | Finished the wood, prepped 2 bulkheads for insertion. Messed around with the bunk roof, which has bent due to high humidity. |
| 15th Wed 12-5 | 5 | Bulkheads in,ply cut for rudder cases and cassette |
| 16th Wed 10-6.30 | 8.5 | Rest of bulkheads cut and installed, more planks on hull. |
| 17th Fri 9-3 | 6 | finished planking, looks good. 3 planks from the top, rest from the bottom. Cut centreboard holes, planked 1/4 round for roof |
| 18th Sat 1-5.30 | 4.5 | Glassed hull and 1/4 round |
| 20th Mon 10-3 | 5 | sanded inside hull half, cleaned up. Halves are pretty different. Should have left frames in first half or built cradles. Not sure thay will bend into alignment without removing some glass. Shit! Interesting getting everything aligned for the blind join. Scope for disasters is huge. Next one will have a deck. This one might also, yet! |
| 21st tues12-6 | 6 | glassed inside hull, include uni and beefing up under mast. D/bias on beam top and bottom, fitted 1/4 round to bunk roof. Looks ok. |
| 22nd Wed 10-6 | 8 | glassed bunk top outside, looks ok. Started fitting bulkheads and c/bd case reinforcing. . Hull halves way different, but no big deal. |
| 23rd Thursday 10-2 | 4 | mucked about |
| 24th Friday 10-30-8 | 9.5 | planked second bunk |
| 25th Sat 4-7 | 3 | Glassed inside second bunk |
| 26th Sun 10-5 | 7 | Glassed outside second bunk |
| 27th Mon 12-7 | 7 | glassed on bunk floor, started rudder cassettes |
| 28th Tues 9-6 | 9 | Bunk tops on, cockpit floor glassed, rudder casseette, beam bits cut. |
| 29th Wed 9.30-5.30 | 8 | Filletted weather hull, joined lee hull, looks ok, but misaligned by 100mm! |
| 30th Thurs 9.30-5 | 7.5 | Joined lee hull, with levers and straps. Looks sleek, slab sided and horny as hell! |
| 31st Fri 9-5 | 8 | Cut holes and glassed inside lee hull. Interesting! Glassed join on weather hull, cut hatches and made covers. Very happy. |
| 1st Sept. Sat 10-1 | 3 | glassed in centrebulkhead, came home sick |
| 3rd Mon 10-6 | 8 | bulkheads fitted, weather hull inverted and one end shaped. Looks good. Whole bunch of little glassing jobs. 1 hour on the rudders |
| 4th Tues10.30-5 | 6.5 | Bulkheads in, weather hull ends shaped, bit different. Hatch in lee hull, rudders extended |
| 5th Wed 9-4.30 | 7.5 | beam holes cut, pins on beams, thrust brg in, case bottoms in |
| 6th Thurs 11-5 | 6 | Lower bearing supports in, bulkheads finished, weather hull ends finished and hull righted |
| 7th Fri 10.30-5 | 6.5 | Squashed front, looks awful, jacked it apart, looks better. Ends on ww hull, rudders uni'ed top bearing in |
| 8th Sat 2-5 | 3 | Fixed bow of lee hull, looks good. Braid on rudders, steps in |
| 10th Mon 9.30-5.30 | 8 | tabbing and filletting! 3 sides of beam. Other bow jacked apart. Steps glassed, other pin glassed |
| 11th Tues 10-2 | 4 | assembled beam 1, finished lee hull join outside, first foam on ww hull |
| 12th Wed 9-3 | 6 | top on beam 2, cases in |
| 13th Thurs 9.30-4.30 | 7 | glassed beams, bogged inside l hull, glassed next beam |
| 14th Fri 9.30-2, 4-.30 | 6 | holes for beams, ends on hull, lots of little stuff |
| 17th Mon 10.30-2, 4-6 | 5.5 | Beams aligned, foam on ends, beam 3, 4, 5 and 6 started |
| 18th Tues 12-4 | 4 | bugger all |
| 19th Wed 10-5.30 | 7.5 | beam 3 &4 boxed, 5&6 doubld. 50 tows around lee hull inboard end. Holes covered |
| 29th Thurs 1-5.30 | 4.5 | bows shaped. Pretty awful looking, but identical. Glass round beam ends. Thinking about lowering the bunk |
| 21st Fri 9-4 | 7 | bows shaped. Not bad. Beam 3 and 4 boxed, foam on lee hull bows, rudder cassettes topped |
| 22nd Sat 2-5 | 4 | glassed beams |
| 23rd Sun 3-5 | 2 | spread hulls, beam on, pushed out bump, thought about how clever I am |
| 24th Mon 9-5 | 8 | Beams joined, clamp could be tricky. Cut and planked the ww hull. Looks awful. May be too little clearance. |
| 25th Tues 9-3 | 6 | Glassed outside, looks much better. |
| 26th Wed 9-5 | 8 | shaped and glassed lee bows. Not bad. Started beam clamp, again. |
| 28th Fri 9-3 | 6 | glassed one weather hull bow, better wrapping glass horizontally. Joined clamp, glassed bottom of cases and chainplates |
| 29yh Sat 12-4 | 4 | messed about, most enjoyable. Glassed last bow, bogged chainplates, made rudder bearings |
| 1st Oct Mon 9-5 | 8 | Slow day. finished weather hull glassing, made cassettes fit, beam boxes not looking good |
| 2nd Oct Tues 11-5 | 6 | glassed boom, beam pin, beam box (again) |
| 3rd Oct Wed 9-5.30 | 8.5 | fittings on boom, pins in rudders, straightened rocker, sanded part of weather hull |
| 4th Thurs 9-4 | 7 | sanded ww hull, bogged bottom of leeward hull |
| 5th fri 9.30-5.30 | 8 | tramp things bogged on, ww hull beaded below wl, tiller stops, boom fittings. Fun day. |
| 7th Sunday 2-3 | 1 | bog stripes on ww hull finished |
| 8th Monday 10-4 | 6 | upright and chatted with sailmaker. Tramp things glassed, played with beams, got despondant |
| 9th Tuesday 9-4 | 7 | Sussed beams, sanded lee hull |
| 10th wed 10-4 | 6 | Another sailmaker. Made pins for bows, highfield lever, another angle |
| 11th Thurs2-4 | 2 | Another angle, pins in bows, refglassed jib sheet track. |
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