Chainplates and bulkheads

This week I've been busy fitting the chainplates, forestay and foam bulkheads. The foam is to get up to and beyond my 75Kg's of floatation requirement. It's been made even more difficult due to the fact that I chose to do them from 50mm foam. More bulkheads reduce the unsupported distance on the deck.

Week two

Here I've started fitting the foam bulkheads and trimmed up the stern a bit so you can see the general shape of the cockpit and the gudgeon strut.

one week into build

Just a couple of shots of the hull after a week of building

Day 3

Not much has happened visually today. I've spread the sides and filled & carbon taped the inside seams.

Day two was pretty stressful. The huge piece of ply on the floor was one thing but once I started to wire the joins and it started lifting off the floor it became a massive, unweildly floppy monster. Once it was all joined thought it became more managable.

Day one of the build sees the pieces glued together using the wave scarf that Steve Clark put me onto. It seems like a good way to do it but you need to get the pieces CNC cut to ensure an accurate join. The ply still bends across the join as if it's not there (from my small test so far).

Build day zero

It might not look like much but to the trained eye the picture above is an International Canoe, if you look really hard you can see it...