Monday 29 August We welcomed back Mark from his long drive to Sydney first thing this morning. Boat 2 was shining in its third epoxy coat which Veronica and I had applied on Friday. Woodwork was the order of the day. JP took his rowlock plates up to Harry’s other shed to sand on Harry’s…
Thursday 26 August The first discussion of the day was about the shape of the bow stem top. We are leaning towards the Norwegian fairing type S shaped prow. JP drew an approximation on a block and I modified it slightly. Paul and Veronica liked the idea. Veronica’s job for the day was to shape…
Wednesday 24 Aug A weather window for applying 3 resin coats to Boat 2 has opened up. The forecast is for three days of warmish weather. JP and I decided to go for it and I checked with a couple of others to see if they were available to help and luckily Veronica was. When…
Tuesday 23 August A grey day but not too cold and not wet so we decided to fill the permanent keel screw countersink holes with dowel and epoxy. JP nipped over to Thorntons for dowel but again the 10mm diameter wasn’t in stock and we made do with 8mm and more epoxy. They will still…
Monday 22 August The first thing I noticed when I opened up this morning was that there was a chocolate mud cake sitting on the bench. I wondered who had delivered such a delicacy for the enjoyment of us boatbuilders. Later in the morning Harry owned up to it. He was batching it this weekend…
Thursday 18 August Yesterday I had mocked up a moveable footrest or “stretcher” as the rowers call them, in my shed and the first thing I did this morning was to see if it would work. Ted, Adrian and JP were on hand to discuss the merits of it and ways we would need to…
Tuesday 16 August I had a surprise when I got out of my ute this morning as an old sailing mate from Perth, Ted K pulled in to the parking bay. I was expecting him next week but wasn’t sure which next Tuesday he had been referring to. I hadn’t seen him for several years…
Monday 15 August Excellent weather forecast for glueing today, sunny and 19 degC, so when I reached the shed I opened up the doors wide and let in the sunshine on my foul mood created by a struggle with a bicycle pump. JP joined me and we started the morning with a robust argument about…
Thursday 11 August A nice day for glueing today so JP and I set up the keel timbers so that we could glue and clamp the scarf joints on the bench. JP also put little bits of blue masking tape on the hull of boat 2 to mark where more glue was required to complete…
Tuesday 9 August The weather forecast was bleak, rain and only 11 degC so I wasn’t expecting the great turn up we had today. I also wasn’t expecting Nick S to be the first in the shed and it was great to see him. He is back in Denmark to prepare his house for his…
Monday 8 August A sunny start to the day and not too cold. I was keen to do a bit of cleaning up and started by sanding the glue dags off the wooden C clamps so that we could store them out of the way for the next club to use to build a St…
Thursday 4 August The weather has continued to be cold, windy and wet and although I have shrugged off my cold (not Covid according to the PCR result) others including Paul, Adrian and JP have not been so lucky. So when I got to the shed after picking up a cake and milk I was…
Tuesday 2 August Adrian was the stalwart who fronted up today. The weather was atrocious and I was glad to be working from home. Adrian continued to sand the underside of the gunwales in boat 1 and when that was done he sanded the topsides post glueing on the outer gunwale. They really look the…
Monday 1 August I was planning to go in early and set up a few jobs then leave because I have been snuffling around with a cold all weekend (Covid negative according to my pet RAT). Anyway when I had been fiddling around for a while I realised that I would be on my own…
Thursday 28 July John I texted to say that he had been a close Covid contact and wouldn’t be coming in today. In fact it was only Adrian and myself who turned up on a cold crisp morning which quickly warmed up. I started by giving the outer gunwale battens a good sand, mainly to…