Well at the end of what has been a frenetic week we now have a full set of moulds and templates for the boat!
There is also now a rig designed and we know where we are going to put the centreplate box... an important factor when considering stability. She will now have a bowsprit and a Gaff Rig and will look very traditional albeit a considerable amount of maths has gone into designing the rig and calculating the stability curve and such things as the Centre of Effort, Centre of Lateral Resistance, and the waterline.
This past week we have also been learning about the joys of epoxy and the particularly the West System, it was a very interesting lecture from the Technical manager of West Systems which once you got past the repeated plugs for West Systems and the range of 'genuine' West System epoxy, hardener, filler, mixers, scrappers, YAWN... was very informative; it was however an unashamed 2 hour long sales pitch.
I have come across a wide range of passionate people in my time, passionate about political movements, sports, the environment, even stamps, but this was the first person I have ever come across who was capable of being passionate about glue.
The past week has also seen the introduction of Maths into the equation (pardon the pun) and dusting of the long forgotten trig. and all those formulae associated with the calculation of area and volume has led to a recurrence of the nightmares I used to suffer from at school.
Need to go and Stitch and Glue...
More later
