F16 bridle fitting..

Just a quick pic of the bridle fitting half- installed. Hopefully taping the keel seam and the bulkheads next week. Then it is off to deck beams and beam seats. Yahooo!!

(Now the ground is beginning to burn under us, foils foils foils..)

Carbon beams.

Our original plan was for carbon beams, as sourcing alu beams was more expensive. Thanks to being close to a carbon manufacturing plant we got a good deal on carbon so it was very cost effective for us.
That was until we found no less than four good alu beam candidates lying around. One set of vintage Tornado beams and one set of beams from another 16 foot cat. So carbon beams are off, for now.. We want to get on the water!!

Elvis has left the building..

Well, not Elvis but Omar.. Life got in the way so he had to pull out of the project. This leaves us with four hull panels extra. Hmmm, what can we do with those, I wonder.. :-)

Bulkheads and gluing the panel seam

Bulkheads tabbed into place in hull #1, and gluing the keel seam between panels. Soon ready to be glassed.
Matching up the panels takes a little bit of work, but it is realitively straigh forward when using straps with small pieces of wood under to match up the two panels along the keel.


Tools of the trade!

It has been a while.

The blog have not been updated in a while. Blog burnout I guess..

The project have proceeded though, at a slow but steady pace. All 12 hull panels are now done (and we did celebrate that event. Quite heavily from what I remember of it).