BUILDING A SKERRY Day 57 - 60
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Offerings to the Spirit of "ET Bugaboo" Days 1 - 5 : Order, Instructions, Clean garage, Glue panel scarfs Days 6 - 10 : Glue outwale sections, Sand scarfs, Measure for frames, Drill wire holes, Sand & taper outwales Days 11 - 15 : Cut gains, More wire holes, Wire Panels, Insert frames Days 16 - 20 : Fix "gap" problem, Glue Mast Scarf, Sprit Scarf, Skeg Halves, and Centerboard Handles, "Tab" Glue Seams Days 21 - 25 : Remove Wires, Glue Seams, Clean up Seams, Shape Stem and Stern Days 26 - 30 : Glassing and coating the exterior Days 31 - 35 : Breast Hooks, Rails Days 36 - 40 : Rails (cont.), Skeg Days 41 - 45: More epoxy, Fiberglass & coat interior Days 46 - 50: Install Seats and Centerboard Box Days 51 - 55: Still doing the Seats and Centerboard Box Day 56: Making it rowable Day 57 - 60: Sanding the fillets, Making Spars, Figuring out the rudder Day 61 - 65: Rudder and Dagger Board Day 66 - 70: Rudder (cont.) Day 70 - 75: Dagger Board Slots, Partner "Adapter", Install Mast Step Day 76 - 80: Sewing the Sail, Adding Lead to Daggerboard, Floorboards Day 81 - 85: Floorboards (cont.) Day 86 - 90: Floorboards (cont.). Foot Braces, Sanding, sanding, sanding,... Day 91 - 95: Finishing Day 96 - 98: ...and more Finishing, Rigging
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Day 57 (8/26/03) 8 Hrs: Well, I'm back at it. Actually, I have been sporadically sanding down those big, ugly fillets using a dremel and by hand. It seems like I will never be done with these (time included in 8 Hrs).
Today, I worked on the spars. First I sanded them down a bit with a belt sander, then rounded over the edges with my router. I decided that for a tighter fit, I would not round over the bottom 10" of the mast, that fits in the mast partner and step. Instead, I sanded this area down a bit more so it would fit. After rounding over the edges, I sanded all the spars down by hand... one pass with 150, another with 220. Finally, I drilled the required holes. Here, the instructions don't say what size hole, so I went with a 1/2" all around.
Day 58 (8/28/03) 3 Hrs: Glued together the mast step. Glued the pegs into the Sprit. Glued the mast partner to the underside of the forward seat. Started applying epoxy to all of the spars, the step, and the partner. Spent 30 minutes trying to figure out how the rudder goes together (the instructions were not very clear, here). But, I did finally figure it out
Day 59 (9/1/03) 2 Hrs: Lightly sanded the first two coats of epoxy on the spars and mast step. Apparently, I didn't do a very neat job with the epoxy, since I had a lot of runs and drips that required extra sanding. I then applied the next coat (trying to be neater about it).
Day 60 (9/11/03) 3.5 Hrs: Put another hour into sanding the fillets. Got bored. Worked on shaping the tiller, which really just consisted of rounding over the corners and smoothing it out with sandpaper.
Then, I shaped the rudder blade with my ROS.
I am now ready to begin putting the rudder together. The first step is to coat the internal sides of the cheeks, that will not have internal pieces glued to them, with epoxy. To do this, you need to trace the internal pieces onto the cheeks. I also started coating the tiller.
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