My little piece of peace

[Frosty]

Cripes what a shit song. I cant listen to crap like that, geeez.

I suppose you like Rolph Harris,-- im more a "pussy cat girls" fan myself.

[Manie B]

bit soon for me

see you guys at the Wonder bar then, 8pm? feb 14th 2010.

i haven't got the dream team helping me

[Frosty]

We can wait , we wont be leaving till half past.

[masalai]

Heh - did you say half arsed?

[Manie B]

ok back to boat building

here are some little "tips" that may be of interest to you

my modified scrapers

the one with the yellow and black handle at the back - i just cut the corners off a normal 80mm scraper - anyway you like personally - play with angles and sizes


i also put the epoxy in a plastic bag and squeeze it out like toothpaste into the joint - then one swipe with the yellow scraper and everything is clean and level "one shot"

my fillets are good - easy - and very fast

these ones are on the fixed keels of the hulls and will be glassed over when i glass the hulls on the outside
needless to say - building fixed keels to a "nacca" foil shape is a WHOLE LOT MORE WORK than what this old fart antisipated



3 weeks now and i am still waiting for my "chocolat" powder - Africa is not for sissies
next week, next month, who frikken knows

[masalai]

Day one - unloaded the stuff from ATL... 1100kg of panels already cut and needing joining to make the full length sections for the boat... The first portents of well-being - an auspicious start, next the Zpress and two piles of panels to be joined - the first 10 panels joined a few more panels later and we could cut out the tabs and have 2 full length panels and a couple of smaller bulkheads.... More tomorrow...

[Frosty]

Hang on Mas what are you saying, that you got the stuff and you are gluing up already? are the photos of your workshop and you?

[Scrumble]

Good day Masalai,

Good to see they have made a great start.
Congratulations, will you have much time to be part of the crew?
Thanks for puting up the photos, we are looking forward to more.

Tom

[Fanie]

Bloody hell Mas you completed the boat already !! or am I seeing things.

[Manie B]

Good stuff

[masalai]

The one in the background is the one we had to drag (literally) out of the shed to make way for my build - towed by a 4x4... good fun... I doubt any but Bob's designs could handle such and suffer absolutely NO damage.... it is a big 44'C stretched to about 46ft and 24? ft beam... Their second build, the first one was based on a mango 39 - "Tribute"... more photographs every work day - hopefully, otherwise very busy and bloody exhausting work for an old fart.... Thanks for the comments...

[Manie B]

Mas are you also going single daggerboard?

What is the current thinking your side?

1. Fixed keels
or
2. Daggerboards (single or double)

from what i understand daggerboard (even single) tacks well
and fixed keels are nice for beaching to clean undersides

[Frosty]

Mannie --hes not here -hes at work, and I think hes quite a bit off making that desicion.

I think hes making the cocktail cabinet today.

[masalai]

Actually sampling the wares - it includes a still and a brewing facility...., and we are considering the daggerboard thing - about the only time I may need it is in a heavy cross wind coming in to a marina pen as it is only about 4.5 metric ton ready to go cruising and 39' loa by 21 ' beam, but then re-saleability to those not versed in cat sailing need something to lift up and down besides their booze whilst making a 60ft mono look like it has a sea anchor out.... so we may have one centreboard - just for decoration....

"Swiss Chris" is heading North in his 39'C it has 4 digits as its name, and is painted a pale yellow - and looks quite nice...

So, the joining of panels and cutting sections out continues unabated 88 panels 8' x 4' to join and then all the big bits are routed/jigsaw cut ready to re-assemble to make the cat....

I do not know what "the Coastal Passage builder was grumbling about - maybe he did not read the manual? everything going ahead very smoothly and Quality control in the ATL products delivers a near perfect kit... - any better they would need to do the build for free - I have no complaints...

[Fanie]

Eh Mas, so you're actually building the boat eh

Pinch yourself... is it real already