The Gleda Project

I had a mild panic this morning when I got to the boat and found that the second coat of paint I’d put on the forward watertight compartment was still wet, but it didn’t take long to realise why. The wind dropped overnight and there was quite a bit of fog around this morning… high [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

I’m very pleased to say that my business venture is beginning to gain some momentum but as a consequence build time is being squeezed yet again. I’ve learned not to get too stressed though as I now consider my business activities to be as much a part of the project as the actual building. This [...]

It’s been a busy business week this week so I was eager to get some build time in today. My intention was to crack on with the other two cabin roof/tumblehome strips. As we’ve had a couple of days of torrential rain here the outside edges of the barn were, as usual after a rainy [...]