The Gleda Project

Once again the income generating part of the Gleda Project is demanding the greater part of my time hence the lack of update yesterday. I squeezed in a couple of hours today though and got the final upper layers of ply glued to the side decks of the starboard hull. I also took off the [...]

A good work session today working on the two side decks of the starboard hull connecting the large curved forward section of main cabin roof to the small aft section. I’d successfully joined glued the four longitudinal stringers and the lower pieces of ply the other day but there was a fair bit of cleaning [...]

Ok not strictly true…. more a rectangular hole in a slightly oval hole but either way it describes what I’ve been trying to do today, namely join up the large curved main cabin roof with the small curved cabin roof. Done correctly this leaves a perfectly rectangular opening sitting within side decks that match the [...]

I was in the mood for building today, things always go so much easier when you’re in the right frame of mind don’t they? Anyway the first job was to gently prise off the second large cabin roof section and then spend some time with the grinding disc knocking off excess blobs of epoxy and [...]

Nothing terribly exciting to report today, I just glued the final layer of ply to finish the sandwich roof section for the starboard main cabin. That just leaves the two narrow aft sections to make and I’m finished with the mould. (I have to make another one with different radius for the cabin tops). I [...]

Today I continued work on the second main cabin roof section and got the polystyrene sandwich material all glued into place and weighted. That’s broken the back of it now and I’ll try and get the final layer of ply in place before the weekend’s out Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook [...]

The last two weeks have been two of the most intense weeks I’ve experienced in a long time but at the same time they’ve been incredibly satisfying because the intensity has been entirely self driven and that’s something I’ve rarely experienced. I was determined to regain ground after our fantastic holiday in Portugal and so [...]

My last work session before our 10 day break to Portugal I’ve completed stage 3 and got the final sheet of ply glued into my first main cabin deck section so when I get back I’ll have a completed section ready to try. I’ll be using the down time over the next few weeks to [...]

I spent a lot of time with the plans and a scale rule today trying to figure out the sizes for the deck panels that cover the main cabins. There are four panels on each hull. The largest ones cover the forward part of the cabins, over the dining area on the port hull and [...]

I squeezed in a short session today, another holiday weekend just past, a 10 day break to Portugal starting next week and my own business to look after mean that time is short right now. No point stressing though I know that things will pick up pace by the end of June and I’m still [...]