Sunday, February 1, 2009

Bits & pieces

It was way too hot this week for any resin work, 3 days of 40 degrees C + weather. So what work that was done was prep work. One purchase that I made was a Dremel tool. It is fantastic for all those fiddly & hard to get to places. With a variety of bits it is great, although it is not designed for continuous use as it gets a bit warm.



I decided to add a bow wing but the big decision was where to fit it. I ended up fitting it just at the rear of the forestay bracket. This created another problem in that I would not be able to fit the pin for the bow pole. I solved this by bogging 2 12mm s/steel bolts either side of the bow tube. Once they are in place I will cove them in & wrap them in tape. I have some off cut of 10mm aluminium bar that will form a backing plate to hold the pole in place which will be held in place by 2 wing nuts.







I also made up some foam shapes to provide some shape to the CMM areas so that the water does not pool there.



I also cut out the holes for the rear cockpit hatches & did the initial fit to the rear mast support.


1 comment:

f82too said...

H Rod, am liking your solutions to various problems in the blog. reading back a few years I notice your boat came with some gear you 'may not use'...I am also building in Melbourne and might be interested if you are selling any...