Date |
Event |
Time Used |
$$$ |
| 16-Dec-00 |
Pick up some silica filler at
Welbeck Sawmill |
|
11.49 |
| 18-Dec-00 |
Attach the top side stringers |
3 |
|
| 13-Jan-01 |
After Christmas, the flu etc,
finally I back at it.
Attach the support for the rudder as well as backer blocks for loops on each side of the
cockpit, fore and aft, top and bottom. This should allow me to add a hiking strap as
well as shock cord nets to the inside of the cockpit to hold my emergency paddle etc.
It also gave me a chance to try out the fumed silica as a glue. |
1.5 |
|
| 21-Jan-01 |
Another week - another bout
with the flu - so much for flu shots.
Buy a cake decorator to use for making fillets. I had planned on using zip-lock bags
or other bags for the purpose, but worried about them bursting. The cake decorator
was fairly cheap and I want to have clean fillets. |
|
4.59 |
24-Jan-01
GACK |
GACK - Minor disaster.
My assembly area is underneath my bathroom and a leaky pipe has dripped on the side of the
boat for 2 days resulting in a nasty looking stain. There doesn't seem to be any
actual damage though. |
|
|
4-Feb-01
It's not a cake - but it's getting decorated |
Back at it finally. Use
fumed silica thickened epoxy and the cake decorator to make fillets on all joints in the
aft and side floatation chambers. Put on a coat of epoxy over everything.
Based on how much epoxy and filler I've used to date, I'm going to have to get more. |
3 |
|
| 10-Feb-01 |
Pick up 2 more packages of
fumed silica at Welbeck Sawmill for $22.98 and
2 cake decorators at the local dollar store for $3.00. |
|
23.98 |
14-Feb-01
Finished Starboard Chamber showing PVC pipe that will be used as a mast tube
Same Chamber - different view showing where the access hatches will go. |
Fillet and epoxy the starbord
bow floatation chamber. Use one of the bag-type cake decorators since I didn't
bother cleaning the plunger-style one I used on the 4th. It worked, but not nearly
as well as the other. Since I also burst the bag part slightly, I didn't bother
trying to clean it. I had bought 2 so I have one for the port side. |
3 |
|
| 17-Feb-01 |
Pick up 2 more gallons of
West System epoxy and slow hardener at the Welbeck
Sawmill. I used up my first gallon making fillets for the port bow.
With the additional epoxy I was able to put on the two coats of epoxy that I
require. I also worked harder on my finishing technique in order to get ready for
doing the cockpit. |
3 |
331.16 |
