Sunday, May 6, 2012

April Activity

April has been a busy month. At the beginning it was disappointing, as we now have a lot of details and despite a lot of work we do not see much visible progress, but a lot has been done.

First the hatches. We assemble, like an origami, the hatches supports













Then the chainplates. Some confusion existed weather we should place them parallel or perpendicular to the centerline. In different Dix drawing they appear in both directions. Christinger too at the beginning was confused but at the end we concluded for perpendicular. Also the number of gussets confused me. Looking at Brian photos I thought there was an extra one until Brian explained me that he decided to make one double.
Having solved these doubts everything became clear. Also the fact that the cut pieces of the kit by Christinger took also in account the differet angle relative to the deck and mast: exceptional!!!


We drilled the deck


Positioned the gussets and chainplates


Welded them in the definitive position




This is the posterior one difficult to weld



and the foremost one. Tricky, it has its own gusset in the frame!


And the final work from inside


and from the deck


Also the intermediate frame E/F could be positioned at this time


Finally.

Then dry fitting the deck saloon window. Exciting









Defining the forepeak with windlass.











Preparing the spray hood base









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