Warm days for last minute projects

Here's something I've wanted to build for a long time.  The perfect plywood rack in a humidity controlled environment.  We run a dehumidifier 24/7 here in the basement.  Now for the plywood to use in those long anticipated building projects.

I took advantage of a warm day to painstakingly mold a 24 foot piece of e-glass tape onto the keel chine of Tridarka's second ama. (You will recall that Tridarka is our 21 foot trimaran sailing boat. The Amas are the outer hulls that keep it upright). As I previously explained the radius had to be re-sanded often removing most of the old glass which had not been properly saturated (epoxy starved). This is a nerve-wracking process of working against the clock while applying and squeegeeing excess epoxy.  When I say hand squeegee I mean it.  I used my gloved hand to mold and massage the glass around the tight corners.  At least three applications of epoxy were added to make sure of the wet-out while urgently rolling out any runs and drips.   Did I mention nerve-wracking?

Perhaps it's time to unveil our winter project.  "Ha," you say, "don't you have more projects than you can do in a year already."  Well, right you are.  However the outside work on the bigger boats is at an end.  So we bring out the plans for the Kiwi Puddle Duck racer.  Karen is quite taken with the idea.  It's a small 4'x8' sailboat that builds rather easily and is lateen rigged.  I just happen to have the rigging from an old Sunfish which is just about perfect for the project.

Karen has already work her magic with a really nice and creative binder for all the research on our project.
I promise not to slum up the pages of this blog too badly with blow by blow stuff.  If I do any detail stuff it will carry the appropriate warning so the reader may skip that edition of the blog.