A Year In

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Just about a year tomorrow and around 8 months of full-ish time work. Have all the port hull bulkhead cut outs done and the outboard cabinside fitted. Was thinking of moving the other hull inside this week, but think I'll wait till after the holiday. I've written up a new schedule which has me moving a one piece structure outside sometime in April. Looking at a very vague launch time of early next fall.

Messing About

John had been showing some renewed interest in getting "in" the boat the last few days and there was no epoxy work to mind today. Of course, Lily was not far behind. Put John to work for a good while vacuuming up all the dust from fitting the cabin sides and cutting the bulkheads.

Fun with Geometry

Lots of angles in a boat, but most on the Vardo happen to be 15 degrees. The problem with fitting the cabin sides is you create a sill that will trap water if you just but a flat piece against the gunwales. I played around with some scrap for a while on the table saw to sort out the best way to get a shape that would have 5 degrees of positive drainage off the gunwale as well as waste the least amount of wood.
I had found this super nice treated Cypress at home depot a few months ago in with the pine decking. I guess the wrong trees went thru the mill that day, but I could only find 2 in the whole stack. Anyway, have enough for both sills and hatch framing. I used the other piece to make the outer gunwale piece in this hull.

Again with the clamps

New Direction

It's a bit of a hassle when out cruising, constantly having to follow the weather. How ironic it is to have to find "weather windows" to complete fiberglass projects. I did get the last of the hull glass done, but none of the fairing. I decided today was the day to more on and began cleaning up the gunwales and cutting the deck curves in the forward bulkheads. My current plan is to putter away for another week on the decks and bulkheads; then move the other hull inside.

Demo

Things are on hold a bit as the weather has turned warm, but with frequent showers and high humidity.  Don't want to glass the inner hull side in this weather.  Things are looking better over the weekend.  Took part of today to begin the demo work of the masonry planter box in front of the wall section where the starboard hull will re-enter the shop.  Not sure who is going to put this all back together when the boat is done? Maybe I can sell the house to someone looking to build a catamaran?

These Are The Days

Actually this was Sunday or so, but just got around to posting it.  It's days like this when you can see some real progress is being made! A close look will reveal a small amount of planking is missing on the outboard side near the bow.  This is the are where the forward netting beam will slid thru during assembly and I thought it easiest to glass it all up later as well as cover the and reinforce the end of the glass pocket the alloy tube will fit into.