Planking 1

Here's the first piece of plywood sides attached to the boat. Used PU glue with small pieces of glass fibre. SS screws at ~70mm intervals. The end is ready for the next piece with a scarf joint.

Whoooo! Finally back to work!

Yesterday spent 2+ hours drippin sweat on my boat. Began sanding the frames/chines/clamps to accomodate the plywood planking. The aft port side is practically ready for planking.
Also cut and predrilled the aft sides - 2 copies for both sides, hope the other side matches later ;)
Feels very good. If everything goes as planned, will spend there a few hours tonight, too.

Sides

Not real work but still, last Saturday bought and brought some nice sheets of 6mm (actually 6,5mm) Riga Ply plywood for the sides. Paid LVL21, plus LVL2 for cutting (to fit in my car). Also started to sand the sides of the frame to accept the plywood eventually.

Pause again

Oh, it's been one more month doing nothing on the boat again! Good thing I don't have to pay any rent for the shop I occupy.
Anyways, most part of the November was spent moving with family from Jurmala where we lived close to the Yacht Club to our new home in Riga. All moving was done with my superb '98 Subaru Impreza which by the way deserves a separate blog. Furniture building and setup took loads of time, too.
BUT
This will be closer to the new workshop where the boat is, and also my "hobby-job", the Aerodrome Spilve. The downside is that there will be no boat-building-friends in the close vicinity.

Pause again

It has been almost a month since my last post. It's about the same since my last touch to my boat. Visited Germany twice and once Dubai in October, almost no time at home. November I will try to get to some boatjob again.

Moving again

Today began with finishing the clamp attachment to the stem. Left the glue to sent and went out to help get Svīre out of the water as the sailing season is almost over for this year. Then moved on with cleaning up the shop, removing legs from my boat setup, packing all the tools in boxes. With some help I got the boat out of the shop, fixed on the roof of the car and eventually hauled everything out to the new home in Spilve.

Clamps et al

Now that chines are attached, I am busy attachin the clamps to have the shape whole and rigid for transportation as I plan to relocate from the premises of Latvia Yacht Club on Lielupe to my hobby-workplace at Spilve aerodrome.
Starboard clamp is almost there, except the stem attachment, port clamp is glued to the transom and the next 2 frames so far. Last night I also glued doublers to some of the frames to have extra glueing area for planking.