I'm building a boat to a design by Paul Fisher of Selway Fisher Design in the UK. The design is called "Able" and her vital statistics are: overall length 4.88m (16ft), beam 2m (6ft 6in) and design weight is 360kg (790lbs). You can read more about this design at http://www.selway-fisher.com/OtherDB.htm#KANE.

I intend to procede more slowly with this boat than I did with either of my other boat building projects (see links below on the right). This is, after all, a hobby and there are other things to do. So, updates to this blog might happen once every week or two. Come back and see.

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Friday, 11 January 2013

Painting Done

The painting is finished for the time being. The outside of the hull has 3 coats of International Toplac over 2 coats of International Pre-Kote over 2 coats of epoxy. The finish is not perfect but it will pass the ten foot test! Here are some photos.




The sheer plank and gunwale only have their 2 coats of epoxy. They will be finished when the inside of the boat is complete. The sheer plank in a darker blue and the gunwale with varnish. The rubbing strip (immediately below the blue) already has 5 coats of varnish.

Next steps are to fit the brass rubbing strips along the keel and bilge runners then build a frame around the boat so it can be turned over. Here's a photo showing how this frame will work; this is Cameron's Able being turned over last December, see link to right of this page.

 
Before I build the frame and turn my boat over I am going away for 3 or 4 weeks to visit friends in Sydney and Canberra and to go to the Wooden Boat Festival in Hobart.
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