BUILDING A SKERRY Day 71 - 75
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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 71 (10/15/03) 1.5 Hrs: I'm glad that's over with. Putting holes in a perfectly good boat is not good for the nerves. Lining up the upper daggerboard slot is tricky. There is nothing to really go by as a guide. You can get a pretty good sense of where the forward end of the slot starts by eyeing up from the daggerboard box below. So, I held my breath and drilled a small starter hole as best as I could figure it should go. By shining a spotlight up through the bottom slot, I could look through my starter hole and see how close to the middle of the box I was. I was a little off to one side, but still within reason. From the starter hole, I worked my way down the length of the future slot with more holes about an inch apart from each other. After each hole, I would recheck to make sure that I was where I needed to be.
I then went back and drilled over these holes with a 3/8" bit, so I could get the saber saw blade started. I then cut the slot narrow and widened it with my dremel as I did the bottom slot.
Day 72 (10/17/03) 1.5 Hrs: Been feeling under the weather for the past couple of days, but since I didn't work on the boat yesterday (and the mast partner adapter * finally came in), I did a little work this evening. Sanded the upper and lower daggerboard slots and applied a coat of epoxy to the exposed edges. Rounded over the outer edges of the mast partner adapter, to give it a better look, and sanded it smooth. Then, lengthened the mast partner hole to fit the adapter, and glued the adapter in place.
* The first round of kits came from CLC with the mast partner hole cut to far aft. This puts an aft rake in the mast that was not intended and results in a weak spot where the mast sits in the mast partner. According to CLC, this problem occurred on about 6 of the Skerry kits that went out, and has since been fixed. The mast partner adapter (for lack of a better name) moves the hole forward to where it should be located. Unfortunately, it does mean that I will have a raised piece of wood on the forward seat that would otherwise not be there.
Day 73 (10/19/03) 2 Hrs: Put a coat of epoxy on the partner "adapter" and another in the daggerboard slots. Installed the mast step (with the help of my wife)
Day 74 (10/19/03) 1 Hr: The instructions do not mention the need to apply a fillet around the mast step. Given that there will be a lot of stress from the mast, I feel that fillets are a good measure. 2/18/04 NOTE: It has since come to my attention that CLC has specifically stated that adding a fillet to the mast step is not necessary.
Also applied another coat of epoxy to the "partner adapter"
Day 75 (11/8/03) .5 Hr: My sail kit from SailRite arrived, yesterday. This morning, I layed out the pieces just to get an idea of what I am dealing with.
Laying the pieces out was very intuitive. Everything is well labeled
The kit even came with more than enough grommets for boom lacing points. I'm still undecided on those. It's odd enough to have a boomed sprit sail. My wife agreed to teach me how to sew. By the time she finished putting the kids down, I already had the sewing machine setup and had read through it's instructions. She just needed to face the machine in the right direction and I was on my way with the scrap sail cloth that came with the sail kit. Although, I'm not sure Martha Stuart should feel threatened by my skills just yet.
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