The Gleda Project

I said a few days ago that I’d been tempting fate with regard to my stated determination to make some progress with Gleda everyday. Well boy did fate respond! There have been two significant events this week that have bought about new demands on my time and necessitated Gleda being put on hold for a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It’s happened again, a little over two weeks just disappeared without a tap being done on the boat. I can look back and say it was unavoidable because we went down to Cornwall for a few days, I was busy working on my business etc. etc. and it’s all true but the reality is that [...]

The last two weeks have been two of the most intense weeks I’ve experienced in a long time but at the same time they’ve been incredibly satisfying because the intensity has been entirely self driven and that’s something I’ve rarely experienced. I was determined to regain ground after our fantastic holiday in Portugal and so [...]

Well we had a super road trip to Whitby, Holy Island and Edinburgh and the Landy ran beautifully apart from fracturing a power steering pipe at Gretna Green on the way back. There was nothing I could do with it so I drove the rest of the way with very heavy steering. No doubt some [...]