The Gleda Project

The weather is typical for a UK Bank Holiday….grey and damp, well wet actually. To be truthful this makes it a bit easier to go the the barn as I don’t feel like I’m missing out so much! First job today was to give the first coat painted areas a light rub down and then, [...]

Slapped on best describes the painting process completed tonight. I worked quickly to get the base coat of primer on in both the bow sections. I’ve learnt from experience that there is little point messing around with the first coat, it always looks a mess and its the second one that counts. Last day at [...]

A decent session fitted in tonight. I tidied up the beam trough strengtheners I put on last night, removed the temporary screws and filled the holes. I then gave the compartments a good vacuum out and washed everything down with clean water. These compartments are now all ready to paint. To finish off I cut [...]

That seems to be the norm just now, plugging away doing what I can with head down and no looking up for the horizon. I know I’m moving forward but it’s hard to see it. Cut and glued the 12mm ply strengtheners to the forward sides of the No 1 beam troughs tonight plus sanded [...]

I’ve managed to get in eight hours work over the weekend concentrating mainly on the bow sections. I had a fairly long and dusty sanding session getting all the fillets and bow strengthening nice and smooth before applying a final coat of epoxy to everything prior to paint. I also glued in and filleted the [...]

It’s late so just a quick update. The same as yesterday except this time it was the forward section of the port hull I got filleted. Strangely I got it done an hour quicker than last night, probably because all the toold were to hand and all the techniques fresh in my mind. Bookmark on [...]

Filleting is not normally something I look forward to. It takes time to mix up the small batches of filled epoxy to achieve the right non slumping consistency. It takes time to apply the fillets neatly and usually you are working in cramped inaccessible places. Tonight though I was just pleased to be able to [...]

Well the clocks moved forward an hour last night so we are now on British Summer Time. Yesterday we had freezing temperatures with hail and sleet. It’s still chilly but the forecast for the coming week is looking good so let’s hope that Winter has finally lost it’s grip. I really hope that this will [...]

I’m fighting to find time again. Working, sleeping and eating are taking priority, I did manage to squeeze in a couple of hours tonight and got the last two sections of the stern decks cut. Struggling to keep my eyes open now though so that’s me to my bed. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post [...]

A combination of things has prevented me from doing any constructive work on Gleda since Tuesday. As always I get subconsciously annoyed, and frustrated, but at the same time I know that it is just unavoidable part of fitting the build around a ‘normal working life’. I did spend some time at the barn however [...]