Diary of an Apprentice Boatbuilder

This blog will follow my progress from the kind of guy that struggles to put up shelves to launching my own boat in 38 weeks.

Sunday 27 November 2011

A busy few days...

It has, to say the least been a busy few days, which have included a great many concurrent activities, not least Ben spending most of his time under the boat applying an underwater primer that smells like a cats litter tray...  I joke not!

So on the basis that a picture says a thousand words here are two days activities...



Knee blanks in place waiting to be shaped

Facing pieces clamped to the ends and top of the centreplate  box




Ben marks in the waterline using a laser



First coat of thinned primer and extract of cat tray!


Knees cut and shaped and thwarts prior to routing the bevel on the edge of the seat


Second coat of primer



Study of Custard Tart with Boat... well a man has to eat!



Final coat of top coat on the inside and 3rd coat of primer externally



Transom and inwales coated with varnishing oil, only another 8 coats to go to achieve full saturation.

There is still a shed load of stuff to do before the 7th December and the launch but we are confident that we will get there!

More tomorrow....