The Gleda Project

It’s been a long time coming but I’m finally moving towards a project re-start. Over the past two weeks I’ve been clearing the barn from one end to the other getting rid of 4 years worth of accumulated crap, sorting tools and equipment, making an inventory of my timber and epoxy supplies and making improvements [...]

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 [...]

After removing the temporary holding screws from the tumblehomes glued yesterday ( I needed a mole wrench on a couple that I’d managed to epoxy in!), It was out with the belt sander and I spent a dusty hour getting the tumblehomes sanded to something like a nice fit, then, after key grinding all the [...]