So real life (and a bloody cold winter) has kept me from spending nights out in the workshop, working on the new boat has not progressed much in physical form over the last few weeks. What has progressed is planning, planning and more planning.
With the shell bottom completed the next big task is to mark along the dotted line and cut the hull down. The question quickly became … where do I draw the dotted line ? This is where having a full 3D model of your boat comes in very handy …
Ok time to cut … ? Nope. Cutting down the hull presents an opportunity to leave some of the hull in place as for the wing support blocks. The fact that I am re-using my existing wing bars means that I needed to hoof down to the shed, measure my current boat and then update Johns Gilmor’s model to an accurate representation of what I actually built. This allows me to know where I should cut and where I should leave the height.
With all that planning now done, I am ready to get out the grinder this weekend and start cutting. Although I already know of a problem that needs to be solved. The bottom of my current mast stump does not touch the new floor as the floor in Teknologika is very flat. I am going to call this an opportunity, and see what I can come up with as a way to mount my control lines on the floor on the new mast stump base.
Once the hull has been cut, progress will speed back up pretty quickly. I have already templates for most of the internal frames, flat panel ready to cut them from, and thanks to Rocket Surgeon Composites, I have a centreboard case ready to put in too.
