Mike warned me that a moth takes a lot of glue to put together! I’ve been glueing bits up and consolidating the joins with carbon tape for the last week.
The wingbar sockets, transom and bulkheads are now glued and taped and today I glued and taped the daggerboard casing in.
I built the daggerboard casing using 4 layers of 200gm biaxial with a unidirectional stringer on either side thrown in for good measure.
Due to the fact that the foredeck is from the latest design of ninja and the hull and deck molds are from the original, I’ve had to do a little bit of jiggery pokery to get the deck and foredeck/cockpit vertical to meet up nicely. With a little bit of carbon and resin matchmaking, the two are now happily united (hopefully forever!)
Installing the daggerboard casing was done using the latest in geometry alignment technology which consisted of a rod at the bow and a rod at the transom to act transit markers…
It is spot on and the old fashioned method was pretty accurate as I took a measurement off the gunwales afterwards.
This week I should be gluing and taping in the ganty lower-leg anchor plate and then finally sealing it all up by gluing on the deck! It won’t be long now… I can see the home straight!
