BULL'S EYE / Mark Chadwick
Continued

September - 11hrs total for the month

• Sept 07 - 1.5 hrs
  • Layout 1/4 plywood reinforcement for breast hook
  • Clean up edges on transom, transom seat cleats and reinforcement laminations
  • Glue up reinforcement (to each other)
  • Glue up seat cleats onto transom
• Sept 09 - 2 hrs
  • Clean up reinforcement laminations after gluing
  • Glue reinforcement assembly onto transom
  • Skim coat inner surface of the transom with epoxy
  • Cut 1/4 thickness support lamination for breasthook
  • Sweep up the garage
• Sept 23 - 1.5 hrs
  • Cleaned up and radius the edges on the main parts of the hull pieces 1, 2, 3, and butt blocks 4 and 5
• Sept 24 - 1 hr
  • Adjusted fit of both joints
  • Glued up with the butt blocks port side assembly of pieces 1, 2 and 3 with butt blocks 4 and 5
• Sept 30 - 5 hr
  • Getting organized so both left and right assemblies can be laid out flat
  • Coated both sides with a skim coat of epoxy
• October 1 - 5 hrs
  • The big day! Started stitching!
  • Installed protective blocks at forward end of chine cut
  • Installed form - need to be careful - 3/4 #8 self drilling/tapping can strip out in the particle board form (use real wood next time!)
  • Stitching completed from Stem to Stern!
  • Adjusted joints along the way with the belt sander When the chine was closed by hand found the form was too big! Bottom edge of form should not extend beyond the bottom panels! It should just come to the edge. Released the form with ropes holding her down but the spring in the plywood due to the stem being closed caused it to finally close like a book. Had to put a 2 x 4 under her and spread the floor flat with clamps. The form was cut and then reinstalled but with 1.5in #8 woodscrews with washers. The screw was unthreaded at the top of the shank so it was easy to close up the gap. Still a little too big so I just opened the chine and managed to get the belt sander up to the form to even up the edge. Lisa and Marsha came out to hold down the spring in the floor while I screwed the form back in place. Closed up the chine with ropes and it will fit nicely now. Gap in the bottom between the two halves near where the dagger board case will eventually go. Good thing much of this area will be cut out! I hope this resin putty stuff works well!
  • It sort of looks like a boat now!
• October 2 - 1.5 hrs
  • Open gap in the centre is really bugging me
  • Tried to replace a few stitches and twist tighter and broke them
  • Tried to replace with heavier wire and broke them
  • Found that putting a scrap 2x4 under the seam and applying pressure to the tops of the gunwhales closed the gap - replaced two stitches on the inside as they applied the pressure to close - worked great. Will drill more holes between existing stitches and put them in on the outside. When they are secure I will change over the inside ones
• October 3 - 2 hrs
  • Completed stitching up the chine on both sides - went faster when Wayne showed up to help
• October 10 -1.5 hrs
  • After looking at the boat sitting in the garage, I decide the transom is too tall compared to where the top of the gunwhale stops. It needs roughly 1/4 inch taken off it.
  • Removed the transom from the boat and after a couple of careful setup/test cuts Wayne and ran the transom through his tablesaw. It came out great and fits well
  • Started to stitch it back onto the boat but didn't have time to complete the stitching.
• October 12 - .5 hrs
  • Complete the stitching around the transom to put it back on the hull
• October 13- picked up filler material on my way home
• October 15 - 2hrs
  • Cut and shaped cradle for the hull itself from 2 x 6 with foam for support
  • Sanded and shaped first inside keel layer lamination
• October 16 - 1.5hrs
  • Left heater running from dinner time to 11:00pm
  • Set up trouble light on bricks inside the hull
  • Set up tarp to go over the boat to keep in the heat
  • Skim coated the two inner boat keel layers of plywood
  • Mixed fillers into remaining activated epoxy and test glued some scraps together
  • Left under the tarp with the light on for 24 hrs. - epoxy seems to have set well on the skim coat and the test fillet & bonding - initial mix was way too thin - ran out of the gap I was filling. I'm glad it was only a test! Will have to make the mix much thicker! Still it is very hard and yet can still be sanded.
• October 24 - 2hrs
  • Well folks that is about it for now - too cold in the garage for epoxy
  • Modified the cradle supports to be slung from the ceiling
  • Hoisted hull up to be able to get my wife's van in the garage for the winter
  • Need to move the smaller pieces - breast hook, dagger board, rudder, tiller and corner knees inside so they can be shaped and finished over the winter
  • Need to move tools and supplies inside and clean up the garage - on to the basement!

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