It's been awhile so let's get back up to speed: She:Kon Bateau TW28 modified

Took 'nother bite out of the whale this morning. Starboard side inside.



Three hours give or take and 1-3/4 gallons of epoxy. I squeegeed the livin' sh*t out of it today! Tomorrow I'll sand the edges and get ready to do the starboard side bottom & transom. Should be able to get them done in one day.

Web log updated: http://she-kon.blogspot.ca/2015/08/star ... warks.html

Standby....

 

Son of a Bubble!



Fixed that lil' b*stard! Sat there and watched it growing from about 3" across to 6" before I nailed it with the bubble buster.



Got the glass for the transom laid up and trimmed but the carpal tunnel syndrome kicked up again. My hands are Sore! Sore! Sore!

http://she-kon.blogspot.ca/2015/08/son-of-bubble.html

There's always tomorrow.

Standby...

 

subscribed. I just have to see this one get finished!

Keep at it Rick!

 

Hey Joel

Fancy meeting you here! How's things in FLA? Business doing ok?

 

Going great, have some new things coming online soon (plans/kits), exciting but a lot of work. Oh, and its hot in FL

 

Done! First layer on the inside, DONE! I can't believe it's taken me months & months to get this done. Sheez I must be a lazy *******! Finished up the transom today to complete the first layer.



Added extra 17 oz tape where the designer was concerned about the small overlaps in fabrics. I'll do the same on the chine where they're a little thin as well.



The complex shape of the transom and the transition to the side & bottoms makes it a wee bit harder to wet out the fabric. You can see the three darts I had to cut in the bottom part of the fiberglass to get it to conform to the shape properly. Took a lot of tuggin & squeegeeing to get it into shape. I'll go out later and check for bubbles!

So the next step is to sand it all down, stem to stern, keel to gunnels then lay in the 0/90 fabric. Hopefully that'll go faster.

Standby.... There's a bottle of Cap'n Morgan's calling my name!

 

Cool! Anything half worthwhile is a lotta work!

The exchange rate between the US$ & Cdn$ is killing me. I get charged 30% on my credit card plus the taxes when we bring stuff back across the border. Even with all that it's still cheaper to buy stuff like epoxy from FLA and have it shipped to NY where we cross over and pick it up.

Thanks for looking in. TTYL

Cheers!

 

you are demostrating that !

Have you tried paying by paypal? It might save you some on credit card charges

 

So as they say, no rest for the weary, hit the shed around 9'ish this morning and got to work on the box keel.



Just a lot of sanding to clean up the 'Fiber Fangs', fabric edges & spills that ended up in the bottom of the keel. I lasted about 4 hours on the sanders till my hands gave out. Back to the grog for relief!

Web log updated with another 'Sandinsanity' video for all you sicko's out there!

http://she-kon.blogspot.ca/2015/08/retu ... anity.html

Thanks for looking in.

Cheers~!

 

Had to take a few days off to rest the hands. They're still a bit sore but pushing through it. The Rum doesn't seem to be helping anymore!

Spent a few hours on the sanders this morning feather fabric egdes etc. to get the box keel ready for the next layer of glass.



Much lighter material but just has hard to work with. The slightest touch and it wrinkles. No way to get it into shape until you're wetting it out and letting the squeegee get it to where you want it to go. That'll happen tomorrow.



Standby...

 

Standing by....

 

Here ya go Hoyt!





3 hours
1-1/2 gal epoxy

Standby...

 

Nice!

 

Three hours of sanding is all I had in me today. Worked on the bow section and down the sides.



That was after about 2 hours sanding. I know not much to show for 3 hrs labor. Web log updated: http://she-kon.blogspot.ca/2015/09/peel ... nding.html

Takin' tomorrow off to go plinkin'!

Standby...

 

Broke out the 8" High Speed Spinning Wheel of Death & Destruction. I couldn't find any aggressive grit discs and had to settle for an 80 grit. It worked fine.



I whipped across the bottom panel in about 45 mins. It's a bit of a beast to control with carpal tunnel in both hands. On the flat bottom panel I could lean on it a bit. On the vertical sides it wasn't so easy. I got the upper half of them done with the 8" and I'll finish them off this afternoon with the 6" RO.

More pics & nonsense on the blog updated: M/V She:Kon: Lunchtime update HSSWDD

Thanks for lookin' in!

Cheers!