Setting of the deck hardware
Finally some clean work, no pain, no dust, no sanding and a bit of brain juice... The architect provided a deck hardware lay out but this...
New cockpit
Another modification we did is the cockpit. We made it much larger using foam and fiber glass material. the aim is to have a widder...
Deck SKIN
This week we laid the plywood skin on the deck and roof. the deck was quiet staightforward with the CNC pre-cut panels. But the roof was...
NICE roof
The roof is built the same way as the hull. A couple of long stringers set into the transversal stations and bulkheads. It's quiet easy...
The inner hull is finished!...almost
A bit of cleaning, some joinery work, drilling the holes for the water flow between the hull compartments, closing th benches and few...
The boat is now unsinkable
As per the mini class rule, minis must be made unsikable with dedicated hull volums filled up with unsikability foam. We choose to put...
Joint + cleaning + joint + cleaning + joint....
We re-inforced the structure wit epoxy joints at every single corners of the hull.. sounds easy but we spent days cleaning, sanding, and...
LET'S FLIP IT
And the long awaited Hull flipping time finally arrived!! I was expecting this day for weeks now. Today we will flip the hull to start...
After few more sanding sessions we finally applied the final pre-coat!!
I decided not to publish the last 2 sanding sessions. Firstly because there is nothing more borring than sanding a boat and also because...
Boat is turning White
This week we've put the firt coat of Primer. This thick coat is meant to file the pores and to fill the imperfections of the hull such...
