The posts on this site will be stopping for a couple of weeks as our family is taking a break at Lindeman Island - Club Med. It is hard to believe this paradise is only just over an hour away by plane.
I know it is a tough thing to do but someone has to keep [...]
Here are some pictures of the deck with fibreglass applied. The rest of the boat is dusty as I’ve been sanding (again) the dribbles of resin that ran down there while I was doing the wings.
This shows the finish after removal of the peel ply. As you can see it is fairly flat and will require little [...]
The following is a little more technical than the rest of the information I’ve put out on this project before but if anyone is building or considering building a cedar boat it may be useful.
I’ve been applying the S - Glass to the wings of the boat this weekend. I varied the wet out procedure [...]
I spent the weekend fiddling with the deck in the bow area. The Swift I’m building is going to use a receiving pole for the spinnaker pole to retract into so I need to do things slightly differently from the US boats in this area. I have the spin pole and receiving tube from CST Composites [...]
The other day I posted some extra photos of Swift Solos in action. Look down the side of this page to check them out.
I’ll take some more photos and do another post about my progress in the next few days.