Neil Hawkesford - Just a guy pursuing freedom and things that make me come alive like earning a living doing stuff I enjoy and building a boat to go sailing.... Crazy or what?
A pleasant work session today and I’ve got the boxing in of the starboard forward beam trough underside completed. As you can see from the photo I haven’t produced the neatest epoxy fillets in the world but bearing in mind everything will be painted white and the area I’m working in will be the sail locker I’m not [...]
A miserable dark wet day that made it all the more pleasurable to be able to work inside the boat, it’s strange that even in this far from completed state ‘Gleda’ is starting to take on a character, and climbing down a temporary ladder into a warm well lit little cabin feels almost homely, I [...]
I spent todays work session on the underside of the forward beam trough, cutting and fitting the two 9mm hullside doublers that give extra strength to the underside of the beam trough. It was a fairly straightforward job and it was nice to have a bit more space to work in after yesterdays contortions! The aches [...]
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