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Once padded out I sliced the excess off with a coping saw and then buckled down to hand sanding to shape.

The hull is now roughed out, needs some work yet before she will be ready for the next stage, covering in thin fibre glass ala mode le Admiral

So what did Santa Claus get you guys? I am just drooling in anticipation of the PE set from WEM to go with this baby!

A peek at the smoothing work going on, I am aiming to get the hull as close to final shape as possible before apply fibreglass.

Cabin Boy was pressed into service to help show the scale, he complained but it was only -2 C; sheer luxury after the Barents Sea in winter!

Starting to show the lovely hull lines of one of the finest seakeepers ever to sail.



As you can see still a fair amount of finishing to be done yet.

My word you have been busy, looking great, keep up the good work, ARH

As ARH has quoted, you have been kept at it. Well done, it's looking great.

It will be a few weeks yet before work on the Marlborough can commence. The Dry Dock is without electricity. You won't believe this, but on Boxing Day morning, I discovered that a fox or something had chewed through the cable where it enters the shed. I know I should have encased it in some conduiting, but did it as a quick job.
I am now going to run a new cable which this time will be through a length of conduit actually entering the shed.
My original cable does go through conduit until the last foot, where it goes into the shed, and this is where the fox had had a bite at it.

Cheers guys.

I cannot work in my shed for a different reason, it has turned into a junk room come orniment storage come extended larder come beer storage during the party season. I have to snatch time on the dining table while the rest are nursing hangovers.

Sure it was a fox? Sounds more like rodent work! Just had a major battle with mice in mine, took me a while to realise why the (deleted) alarm kept going off in the early hours.

A little light relief from the cheap seats.



The hull is roughed out, gaps filled, lumps sanded. I painted it with sanding sealer

Now layered with fine fibre glass mesh and resin, I cured it with the aid of a martian death ray, this is the patio heater I mentioned Admiral.

Next stage will be filler, still working weekends so not sure when. Be glad when the longer days come round, I was very unpopular doing the fibre glass work indoors!

nicely done middle watch!

Hi,

I was very unpopular doing the fibre glass work indoors!

I bet you where, looking good

Hull's coming together nicely!

Hi Middle Watch Just catching up on your progress, certainly come along in leaps and bounds since I last looked in and looking very much a Leander.
Dave Wooley

Good luck with the filling middlewatch, it's all the sanding down afterwards, that is the messy part.
Better not do this indoors, or you may be visiting the divorce court.

And be careful with that heater, or you might grill the Naiad.

Victorious wrote:Good luck with the filling middlewatch, it's all the sanding down afterwards, that is the messy part.
Better not do this indoors, or you may be visiting the divorce court.

And be careful with that heater, or you might grill the Naiad.

Not looking forward to that bit, last time the stuff set so fast I never really had chance to shape it, wonder if I use to much activator? It is a bit difficult to measure.

Cheers for the encouragement all.

Mix about 3 tablespoon fulls with about enough hardner to cover your thumb, about 1/4 inch high, put it on as thin as it will go, 1/32 inch, lightly sand, put on more , do the same till the hull is covered in a thickness no more than 1/8th of an inch, that should be more than strong enough, ARH

Gotcha, thanks!

I havent been on the board in a while now nor have I checked in on this. Im impressed! I love what I see right now. I deserve to be kicked in my seat for not veiwing this as much as I should have.