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 [...]

Just a quicky tonight, been mega busy but sneaked 2 hours and got the port cabin top glued. It didn’t go quite as smoothly as planned because I’d somehow developed a twist in the forward raked back section I glued on Saturday. I had to employ some clamps, wire and the ratchet strap to pull [...]

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A good session today and I now have the starboard cabin top glued in place. No problems with the job just moved slowly checking measurements as I went and making the last few small adjustments to get as good a fit as I could. I’m really pleased with the result, just the right compromise between [...]

The aft cabin side section I glued yesterday came out really well and the hot-melt glued blocks came away cleanly when tapped. The epoxy had set hard enough for me to be able to remove the temporary support and sit the cabin roof on top. I used another dab of hot-melt to keep it in [...]

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 [...]

I’ve not had much free time this weekend but I did get to the barn for a few hours today and managed to get the last layer of 4mm ply glued and weighted. I confess I’m ready for something different after making 12 different sections of sandwich construction. Unfortunately my boat building time tomorrow will [...]

I was up at the barn early this morning and it was noticeably chilly, I’ve had to put the epoxy warmer back on because it was thicker and harder to mix than it has been for months. I’ve been using a 50:50 mix of fast and slow hardener for the epoxy but I can see [...]

A busy business day meant I was only able to do a couple of hours today but I pushed on and got all the remaining strengtheners cut and glued onto the portside cabin top. I also got the polystyrene cut ready to glue tomorrow. I had another good look at the starboard cabin roof position [...]

Well the starboard cabin top came off the mould relatively OK with the exception of one temporary screw that I’d left in place causing me to wonder why it wasn’t budging! But that aside it came away cleanly and after a bit of tidying up round the edges I’m really pleased with the result. My [...]