- which covers the build from attaching the bottom onwards – until we need to introduce page 3.
As usual click on the thumbnail for a larger image – I have started using a ’#' suffix to the caption where there is a supplementary commentary on the larger image.
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- Limber holes
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- Ready for bottoming out
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- Bottom epoxied on, sundry weights holding it down to the central web
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- simple gauge for marking out screw positions at the edge
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- Cleaning back the overhang
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- Sides and bottom, from the blunt end
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- Sides and bottom, from the sharp end
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- This is where the CB case is – I think?
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- Cutting the CB slot
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- Cleared CB slot
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- gluing up the narrow side mast assembly
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- Gluing mast box – first stage
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- Bottom of initial mast assembly
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- Dry run assembly of runners
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- glass draped in place
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- sheathing and runners in place
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- Sheathing trimmed at the masking line
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- Narrow side mast assembly (ladder)
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- It’s looking better
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- trimming oversize spacer blocks with flush cutting pull saw #
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- assembling one of the wide staves on the mast
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- Final stave glued on mast
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- Stern view #
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- Three quarter rear view
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- Side profile
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- side profile 2
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- bow angle view
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- Three quarter front view
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- cable sheath used to keep limber holes clear during gluing #
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- The 50mm hole for future possible ballast plumbing #
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- CB timbering out at floor level #
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- Stern air tanks
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- dry run for mast box
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- Filing out the bung hole #
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- Brian’s pressure relief valve #
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- Gluing the mast support pads #
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- Gluing the mast support pads, 2
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- Gluing the mast support pads, 3 #
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- Gluing the mast support pads, 4 #
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- Cleating out the interior.
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- Inwales and cockpit floor stringers glued in #
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- Breasthook, in case Brian wants fairleads in the future #
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- gluing the glass surface onto the mast foot #
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- the floor latticework #
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- The glassed mast support pad #
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- Mast pad after cleaning the edges #
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- making sure the mast box still fitted
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- The side air tanks, sized up and in place #
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- The transom ‘knee’ #
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- side air tank in more detail #
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- The Aft Cockpit floor cut to size and temporarily in position #
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- Cockpit floor in place
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- Cockpit floor in place from the blunt end #
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- ballast tank end supports and outline of tank/cave lockers #
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- ballast tank end supports and outline of tank/cave lockers 2 #
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- Ballast Tank baffle plate #
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- Baffle plate in context
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- Forrard cave locker
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- both cave lockers placed #
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- Full run of lockers and ballast tanks #
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- An impression of the run of lockers and tanks on both sides.
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- Mizzen mast foot components
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- Aft cockpit floor glassing #
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- Air tank sides with three coats of poxy on the inside
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- Completed mizzen foot, keep drainage clear of poxy
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- fixing the side panels of the below floor ballast tanks #
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- reference shot of DB case to help locate the slot after the floor covers it up #
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- Ready for the rest of the flooring #
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- Floors glued down #
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- glued down floor taped up ready for sheathing with glass
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- first coat of poxy squeeged into the glass #
Continued on page 3
If you want to ‘borrow’ my snaps and post elsewhere please respect my copyright and clear it with me first – especially so if you are going to make a statement of fact about the how.
Trim is looking really good keep pushing on!
Not seen Trim booked in at Barton yet on the hbbr database.
Will you be finished by then?
By: Mark Harvey on April 29, 2009
at 13:20
I always thought that this build was supposed to be a simple and straitforward boat to build, as simple as a GIS. Your detailed pictures show that this is a very complex and time consuming build indeed. You show an amazing amount of tenacity and skill in the build of Trim, well done! I really can’t see many of these being built by any but the most skilled and tenacious. Well done Chris its an absolute pleasure to watch the skills of an expert displayed for us all to revere.
I know I couldn’t do this one!
Regards
Ian
By: Ian R on April 27, 2009
at 22:03
Very perceptive – over 400 hours so far and still quite a ways to go. Tenacity has been tested to the full and I have come to the conclusion that my skill set is struggling – I should stick to easy stuff built in clinker ply.
By: strathkanchris on April 27, 2009
at 23:00
Your skill set seems to be perfectly adequate to date Chris. She’s looking great.
Steve
By: Steve on April 29, 2009
at 15:37
I love how Trim is looking (my contribution to the project was to suggest the name).
Has any further progress been made since the lockers weree placed?
By: Jeremy Kriewaldt on April 22, 2009
at 08:15
Glad somebody likes it – on the final push (even if it looks as though I am going backwards) after a spell under the weather. Most of the remaining components are roughed out so it is final fitting and glueing and we should be there.
By: strathkanchris on April 25, 2009
at 22:01