It was a weird feeling gluing on the deck as I realised that no one will see the inside of the main tank in the boat’s lifetime! (At least I hope so!)
With the deck on it was then a case of sealing the tank by gluing in the rear wing bars, the daggerboard case and finally joining the deck to the main bulkhead up front.
The Pushrod tube is also now firmly in place ready for the final phase of gluing on the nosecone.
I’ve got a little bit of taping to do (wingbar joint to deck) and a bit more carbon skinning (sealing in the joint between front wingbars and cockpit) before closing up the front.
So by the end of this week I guess that will all be done and we’ll have a finished hull ready for filling and paint prep. Hopefully Mike is sending down some tramps shortly so I can also get those fitted as well. I’m now in a dilemma about colours! I thought I was set on a silver boat but I’m not so sure now.
So less than a month since I started, the boat is coming together nicely and by the end of this week, the build will be finished.
There will still be lots of little bits to like make some carbon brackets for the cleats and carbon mounting plates for pulley blocks etc. so I’m still a way off getting the boat on the water (not to mention that I’ve not ordered the foils and rig from Mike yet!)
Looking great Phillipe! I am not sure about silver as a colour. It will show every scratch. I would dearly love to have a boat the same metallic blue as my Golf. If you go on the VW website you could find it. As long as its not pink!
Impressive build, nice watching the progress.
In Aust the hull length would be measured to the aft end of that lower gantry attachment bracket, which because it is part of the hull, and not removeable, or a fastenning, would not be interpretted as a fitting. It may be the interpretation at Belmont.
Whats wrong with pink? I’ve got loads of random metallic paints lying around, maybe we could mix them all together and have metallic brown?
Silver. Go for it!
Brown, mmm, could name the boat “richard the third” ???? lol