The Gleda Project

I pushed things a bit tonight and put in a three hour session. I was in the groove and wanted to finish off these deck sections and sternposts that I’ve been working on for what seems like ages. The sanding and shaping went well, aided by the addition of some fresh 40grit to my belt [...]

I spent my session tonight working on the starboard aft deck and stern post. After all the filling and gluing there was plenty of sanding and shaping to be done. I set up the router to put a nice rounded edge on the deck/sheer stringer join, sanded back the filled holes and spent some time [...]

We may not be out of the winter just yet but today we’ve at least had a taste of Spring. Still, sunny and temperatures in double figures. I’ve been working pretty hard the past few weeks so I just did a couple of hours this morning before making the most of the weather chilling with [...]

A good day today. I got all the sanding on both stern decks completed then cleaned up and epoxy filled all the countersunk screwheads and holes left over from temporary fixings. Wanting to concentrate on finishing these decks externally, I checked the plans and discovered that the next stage was to add 20mm hardwood ‘cheeks’ [...]

I cracked on tonight and got the port side aft deck all nicely sanded with rounded edges. I also cut out the excess ply to make one half of the hatch opening. I’ve given quite a lot of thought to these hatches and I’ve decided to build a Maurice Griffiths type hatch over the port [...]

It’s a inescapable fact, as true to boat building as it is in so many other things. It is impossible to get the reward without putting in the effort. I get a real kick from making really visible things happen on the boat. Most recently it was getting these small stern deck sections fitted. A [...]

I’m trying to keep some momentum up. I put in a slightly longer evening session tonight and got the port stern decking fitted 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

A strong cold wind today with occasional hail showers, but I didn’t affect my progress. I got three good jobs done today. I glued in the port aft deck stringers. Finished off and glassed over the port bow strengthening and got the first starboard aft deck sections fitted. I was particularly pleased with the latter [...]

A good day’s work completed today. I got the last sheer stringer fixed, trimmed the excess at bows and sterns and the forward beamtrough, pre-painted the undersides of the four aft deck panels and port side deck stringers and started work in the port bow section finishing off the bow strengthening. It’s nice to be [...]

Many congratulations to Jean-Paul and Cynthia on the launch of Apatiki. It’s an incredible achievement to have produced such a high quality and technically innovative (she has junk rig and electric propulsion) Tiki 46. She looks beautiful! I’m sure we all look forward to reading about her future adventures. I now have another link to [...]