I am back.... back from a family trip to Argentina, so many things were obviously put on hold. I have two main projects at the moment other than preparing the labs for the start of the spring semester. The first is a large home project for my wife, the other is the dory build.
I will get some photos of where I am, but let's just talk it through. I zip tied the seams and have started putting in the epoxy and cabosil fillets along the internal seams. The thought was lurking in the deep recesses that maybe a combination of traditional building methods and new "stitch and glue" might not get along harmoniously. The strong back really helped since I didn't have any templates for determining the actual plywood cuts. I warped everything and screwed it to the forms. This worked fine and held the house of cards together in more or less the correct shape.
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| Gunwales trimmed, ribs removed |
At this point I decided to zip tie the whole thing together. With this done, I released it from the saw horse and flipped it over, so far so good. I put in some fillets until I grew frustrated with working around the 3 ribs. I knew taping over the fillets was coming and I didn't want to get all finicky working around the ribs. I am also using cheap fast drying polyester resin and it can be a pain as it kicks in about 15 minutes. I decided I could do without the ribs and removed the front and rear first. The middle one is still in place as I write this to make sure it holds relative hull shape. I can glass tape now without too much problem. Once this is done, I can decide if I will do the internal watertight compartments or flip it and do the sanding of the edges before glassing the bottom.
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| First layer of epoxy for fillets. Next will also include glass tape. |
Was looking at the plans again to get a better idea of how the keel box was going to be constructed as well as the mast base. Plans is a relative term here, drawing might be better as there are no construction details concerning things like the keel box.
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