The Gleda Project

Unbelievably its been over a year since I originally started on construction of the tumblehomes, talk about dragging a job out! Today though I re-cut and re-fitted the ones on the port hull and they are now ready to glue. It was all relatively painless and if I knew then what I know now I [...]

Today it was a migraine and business that conspired to hinder my progress but as before I ‘sneaked’ a couple of hours and got the final top layer of 4mm ply glued to the port hull side decks. Apologies for the lack of photos and short posts, I’ll make up for it soon. Interestingly though [...]

My diary had me down as spending a full day at the barn today. I did, but only got 2 hours work done on the boat as another (paying) job took up the bulk of the day. Not to worry, it was a worthwhile use of my time and I managed to get the polystyrene [...]

I unexpectedly managed to sneak in an hour and a half this afternoon and got the lower sections of 4mm ply side deck cut and glued into position on the port hull. I’ll take anything I can get right now, it all helps to keep things moving forward Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend [...]

I’m keen to get these tumblehomes and cabin tops done as soon as possible and today I was able to move over the the port hull and make a start joining the two sections of cabin top. Things went far easier than with the starboard hull because the tumblehomes weren’t in the way meaning I [...]

I put in a 7 hour day today and feel like I  made some really good progress but I’m worn out tonight, as is my belt sander which finally gave up the ghost today after many many hours of use. It’s an indication of the scale of work involved with a project like this that [...]

A good work session today working on the two side decks of the starboard hull connecting the large curved forward section of main cabin roof to the small aft section. I’d successfully joined glued the four longitudinal stringers and the lower pieces of ply the other day but there was a fair bit of cleaning [...]