Not as much progress as i had hoped.

I have been working slowly on the project adding small support pieces and figuring out other things.  I have been distracted getting the other boats ready to hit the water to race and went down to Charleston for Race week for a few days.

Cutting our support frames for deck and floor in the rear of the boat. 

Here they are in place. 

Stole the I Beam idea from another blog.  These are fun to make and are seriously strong and light! 

Here is the boat as it sits now.  Bunks are just cut and being fit.  I beams are in.  A bunch of fiberglass is on its way and i should have all of the frames taped and start taping the support pieces soon. 

Here is a winch i blasted and powdercoated for our J29. 

Much better grip and looks! 

This boat makes me wonder why i am building a sport boat when i could just take out a big fat loan and have one tomorrow! 

41 vipers getting ready for CRW!

Frames are in!

Frames are in and where to begin!

Every frame went in from a mesurement from the stern.  Measure from the stern and mark each sheer with a straight edge between each sheer with level find and mark the bottom of the hull.  The only issue is had was Frame 53.5.  I had herd other peole having issues with this frame.  I left 1/2" extra on each side of the frame and i still had to pull the hull a long way in!  I would recommend leaving extra on frame 53.5 in order to keep a nice flow to the hull.

I used a spoon to create these fillets.  I like using a spoon i was able to change the diamiter of the fillet by the angle of the spoon.

Here it is all taped up with 15oz biax glass.

20 clamps and counting.

We drilled and zip tied up the hull every 6 inches then put glue (West system mixed with 70% 406 and 30% 410 filler) in between each zip tie.  Just enough to hold.  Then we cut out the ties and ran a fillet joint along the entire inside of the chine.   I used a 1/2 radius fillet which will allow me to use 4 inch tape.  For a rule of thumb your fiberglass tape should go 30mm past your fillet on top and bottom.

Here is a shot right after i glued up the Chine.

Nick clamping all 14 clamps down to the stern. 

Here is the bow stem all cut up.  We used the cutoff pieces from the stem so hold the clamps on straight and it was a real pain to figure out how to get is all on there tight.

All Glued!

Starting to cut out the rest of the bulkheads.

Matt cutting away.  PS a brand new jigsaw blade makes a world of difference!

Measuring and installing bulkheads.

Here is as the boat sits now.  Bulkheads are test fitted.  Now i need to remove them and put fiberglass tape down on the chine re-install the bulkheads glue and tape them in.

 

Its a boat!

The Plywood and Tyvex patterns came in!  We spent all weekend including Friday night working on the panels and hull and got allot done!  I took allot of pictures so i will let them do the talking.  Also check out the video on the scarf jig we build it worked very well and was simple to build!

Full size Tyvex patterns.  Worth there weight in gold!

Here is my boat!  Some assembly required.  It came with an allen wrench tho so its all good!

This is our scarf jig.  Just two pieces of 3/4 ply put together at a 80 Degree angle.  Using the Festool at a 6 degree angle making out cut 4 degrees off the center of the ply made a nice 2" joint.

Laying down epoxy.  I used West System wetting out both sides with straight epoxy then adding a 50/50 mix of High Density filler and Fairing filler.

We filled the buckets half up with water just to give some pressure.  Also we put packing tape on the ply so we had less to sand off later.  It worked quite well.

Bottom Panel getting marked out.

The boat has arrived at the barn!

Cleaning out the hole for the boat.

The eagle has landed!

Another Shot.

Front view.  I just threw it in the cradle. I need to do some adjusting on the cradle but overall it seems pretty good! 

Here is a short video on our scarf joint jig.  It worked well.

Hours: 42

Beers: 10

Misc Update

The ply for the hull is on its way so we have been puttering around doing misc projects on things we can get done before the hull materials arrive.

Finishing up the slot for the Uni Carbon on the keel.

First time using a standard hand plane this thing worked awesome i should of used it before when trying to get a rough shape on the keel.  Its a great option inbetween sanding and power plane.

Driling the holes in the bulb.

Huge pain in the ass to get the holes straight.  After i drilled the first hole i put a pipe thru the hole so i could make sure my second hole was at least the same axis as the first.

Doing some shaping with a rasp.  Works well but i still have allot of lead to take off.

Keel Foil fits nicely.

We got bored so we figured we would add some decoration to the shop.  We projected the i550 logo on the wall then masked it off with tape.

Me doing some painting.

Finished logo.  We also plan to add some exploded views of the boat.

Nick cuting out the Bow Stem.

Bow stem is cut out of White Oak.  We read thru the build guide on how to build this which helped but a few of there dimension and angles were incorrect.  The dimensions on the plans are not possible at least we could not figure it out.  We improvised with what we thought would be correct.  This also started an idea for a boat name.  (Good-E-Nuff) Thoughts?

Cradle is Finished!

So the cradle is done!  Now i just need to order my hull materials and i can start building an actual boat.

Beer to keep myself and others hydrated.

We used two laser levels to get the cradle aligned.  One was down the center mark and we used a self leveling rotating level that gave us a mark about 4 inches over the entire cradle to measure down from to get the correct height and level.

As you can see i used 1/2 inch bolts o bolt each support piece to the cradle base.  Also the 3/4 ply supports are drilled out larger than the bolts.  This allows me to make small adjustments if i ever need to.

Done!

Hours: about 65