The Gleda Project

A four hour session today enabled me to finish the two outboard tumblehome/cabin roof joint strips. Same routine as before, prep sanding, routing a nice round edge on the cabin roof and beam trough edges and gluing on the half round strip. I used bigger screws this time so hopefully they’ll come out easier. I [...]

The weather has been lousy today, very heavy cloud and regular heavy rain. The temperature was high though and very humid with it. I put in a seven hour session and I think I’m going to pay for it later! Seven hours of climbing up and down step ladders, clambering around, in and on the [...]

Another three hour session, starboard cabin roof section all glued into position. Exactly the same routine as yesterday, exactly the same amount of time taken, pleasingly, exactly the same result. Now looking forward to planing, sanding and fairing them both in so that they really become part of the hulls. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this [...]

Other commitments kept me from the build over the weekend but I got a good session in today and finally got the tumblehomes glued in place on the port hull. Enough said about them! I also sanded and second coated the cabin roof section so that’ll be ready to lift into place next time. My [...]

A six hour session today and I cracked on with final fit and gluing of the tumblehomes on the starboard hull, all went relatively painlessly apart from one that got away from me as I was offering it up and in the process of trying to catch it I got epoxy mix on my arm, [...]

I was in the mood for building today, things always go so much easier when you’re in the right frame of mind don’t they? Anyway the first job was to gently prise off the second large cabin roof section and then spend some time with the grinding disc knocking off excess blobs of epoxy and [...]

Lessons learned making the forward cabin decks are paying benefits now with the construction of the main cabin decks. I have the construction broken down into three stages. Lay the first sheet of ply into the mould and glue the transverse strengtheners Glue the longitudinal strengtheners and the polystyrene sandwich material – Apply Weights Glue [...]

Another heavy session today but I wanted to keep up the momentum and get the four tumblehomes in place. Before I started on them though I took a bit of time to finish and clean up the deck section themselves. A little bit of planing was needed to get the forward and aft edges nice [...]

The weather has cooled off to something more comfortable which suited me today as things got a bit physical hoofing two fairly weighty decks up onto the hulls and into position. Before that though I marked up the positions of the bulkheads onto the undersides of the freshly epoxied sections and took my angle grinder [...]