The Gleda Project

I spent a couple of hours today working my way round the port cabin top routing a nice rounded edge all the way round, snading back excess epoxy and generally cleaning up ready to start the additional filleting and glass reinforcing work. I’m going to concentrate on these jobs and get as much done on [...]

After a good nights sleep I was feeling a bit better today so I pushed on and did what I’d planned to do and got the final cabin side cut and glued in place. It’s been a long time coming but I now have two hulls structurally complete. Now I’m not about to get carried [...]

Just a short post tonight, I did manage 4 hours today but I probably shouldn’t have. I’m under the weather with some sort of virus I think, short of energy and nagging headache. Makes simple things harder, but anyway I thought the fresh barn air would help, that and having something to concentrate on so [...]

I’ve now got the aft and forward sections of the cabin sides on the port hull cut and glued in two 2.5 hour work sessions. By my reckoning that’s less than half the time it took me to do the ones on the starboard hull. With luck I should get the port hull enclosed by [...]

There’s a phrase that cropped up in my Internet Marketing activities recently – ‘Celebrate Small Victories’. Well today I’m celebrating the small victory of having gotten the starboard hull enclosed. I can now officially do things like ‘go down below’, ‘sit in the companionway’ and  ‘go up on deck’. Blimey I’ve almost got a boat! [...]

No point saying it….. busy, time strapped, you know the score. Anyhow I managed to get a four hour session in today and was able to make a start on the cabin sides. How I wish I’d done the tumblehomes this way, its just so much easier when you actually have something physical to measure [...]

Business and some essential Land Rover maintenance has used up a chunk of building time so far this week but today I was finally able to get cracking again. I got the recently completed port cabin roof off the mould, cut out the companionway and sanded off all the edges so that it’s all ready [...]