The Gleda Project

Still cold and fog has not cleared all day (see below). Did OK tonight though as I got the skeg and keel doubler templates drawn & cut out. They were quite time consuming to do because the hull curve has to be marked twice, once in the actual hull curve position and then again with [...]

A night of freezing fog meant a slow trip to and from the barn, the sort of night where you half expected to see a headless horseman galloping down the lane. I swear there was even fog drifting through the barn! I have upgraded the epoxy warmer because the energy saving bulb wasn’t really generating [...]

Spent several hours at the barn this afternoon but don’t seem to have achieved much. I woke up with a sore throat this morning and have been feeling a bit achy and tired so I called it quits and will get an early night. Although I haven’t touched anything on the boat I did make [...]

Good six hours put in today and I now have both backbones cut out. After cutting the final pieces I clamped the matching sections together and spent a lot of time planing and sanding the edges so they matched perfectly. I have strayed from the drawing lines by a few mm in places but not [...]

Lads night out was cancelled so another 2 1/2 hours clocked up and another three sections of backbone cutout. Should finish with the 18mm cutting tomorrow. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

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It took a real effort to go building tonight. Office party last night had left me somewhat sleep deprived and groggy and it would have been very easy to crash but I didn’t and managed to put in another 2 1/2 hours and now have three more pieces of backbone cut out. I discovered a [...]

Mark this day!  Here I am with the first real actual pieces of Gleda. From this point on she will grow, how long until I can pose with the last pieces?   After the frustrations of last night I was determined to be productive tonight. I solved my plywood splintering problem by cutting first with [...]

After another wid night of wind and torrential rain I was again a little concerned about the build site. There had been some leaks and the floor got quite wet in places, but no damage to anything. More leaves to sweep up though!  I spent about half an hour clearing and preparing a space for [...]

The first solid days work done today. Spent a few hours making a shelf for the tool store and sorting that out plus a big cleanup tonight but I’m putting 6 hours down to the build. I first re-checked measurements on the lofted out drawing and then when I was happy started re-drawing it all [...]