Hooray, I got the wood for the hull today!
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| Wood for hull |
About a month ago I bought epoxy & hardener (6 Litres) as well as high strength filler.
I also found a small roller at a garage sale for 50cents which may come in handy for applying epoxy.
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| Epoxy and filler. |
I have purchased a Ryobi work centre from Gumtree. It has a table saw, plus router & jigsaw mounting points. It should come in useful for the project.
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| Ryobi work centre |
I have also cleaned out our shed. The dirt floor is not ideal but apart from that it is perfect. I'll have to think of a way to control the dust for epoxying and especially varnishing. Maybe some old carpet would help but I'll worry about that later.
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| Shed |
The first step in getting started was to make paper patterns of all the parts to determine how much wood I would need.
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| Frames |
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| Parts for 18mm plywood |
Converting all the sizes to metric, I put together a cutting list to get the wood machined to size. I was recommended to use hoop pine for everything except for having a hardwood keel. Hoop pine was a good cost /quality balance. I think hoop pine is a good option because is lighter than hardwoods.
There is 6mm & 18mm Pacific maple marine ply (6 and 1 sheets respectively).
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| Cutting list (I got a kapur hardwood 20mm thick keel in the end) |
I have so far transferred some of the frame pieces onto the wood using carbon paper
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| Stuff strewn across the living room. Good thing my family is away for 4 weeks! |
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| Transferring the frame patterns onto the hoop pine |
In the next couple of weeks I hope to cut out the pieces and assemble the frames.
