CAD

While I am not very much into the physical building at the moment (not much to do in appartment but still too cold to move to garage), I decided to play around with CAD a little bit. This is what I got:

Not really perfect but still one can get an idea of how it looks. I drew the "hard" lines according to plans but the software curved the boat kind of inside of these hard lines. The "reallife" boat will be outside of these hard lines thou basically it will look about the same. Made with DELFTship.

DUST

Tried some sanding (frame nbr4 and transom) on the balcony,
last time I did something like that was ... well long ago,
don't remember much of the tips and tricks,
didn't take that muc - maybe some 10 minutes, but ->

everything on the balcony was in very fine dust,
neighbors crazy about the noise,
part of the bedroom (from which balcony is accessed) was in dust coz a little opening had to be left for cable,
the whole me was in dust, not talkin about tools or parts themselves,
Dany was in dust because he peeked though the glass door and shouted at me the commands thru the little opening for cable.
Phewwww
I NEED THE SHOP FOR THIS!!! No more mess in the apartment.

Sick

Been really sick these days, hopefully tommorow will be able to get smth done with the boat.

Getting tools ready

Now a lot of sanding work will come to get the ribs in a proper shape for planking. So yesterday i bought a new drive belt for my old half-working belt sander and a set of 60 grit sanding discs for my angle grinder for the rough job. Pity i cannot work today coz of a sore throat (angina).

Now I can estimate the size!!!

Wow, finally i see how actually big it is! And that is with stem and bowsprit still missing! Frame 4 still wrapped coz glue is still curing. Didnt want Daniel to smear it all round the studio. The frames will go lower into the form, just did not notch it yet coz some of frames might change their positions slightly. Waiting for advice from Ireland on these issues.

Frame #4

The last - #4 on full scale drawing. After this one is screwed together, we move on to stacking them onto the form.

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Did i promise some building news tonight? Well... I did better, brought my boatbuildin buddy out on tour. Buildin news commin 2morro.

Silencio = i was busy

It's been too many days of silence from me here. Been busy. BUT I promise to move on with the project today. 2 more frames and it's time to put it all together!