Just a simple wooden box with a lightbulb inside and a switch on the outside. The swing down lid has slots so the tops of the epoxy pumps are outside the box or a hinged lid you just flip up when you need to pump.
Epoxy that has not cured is a problem most of use come up against at least once. However it is unlikely to happen a second time as it’s operator error in 99.9% of cases. So what are the typical mistakes?
There are a number of labour and materials saving techniques that reduce labour and reduce the quantity and cost of epoxy used – wet on wet coating, one hit gluing
This is a basic section on the stages of fibreglassing areas on a plywood boat, canoe or SUP. Many problems can be avoided by being methodical and setting up each stage carefully rather than rushing in.
Where a seam or boat chine is fibreglassed and the glass bubbles and will not sit flat or go around the corner – a simple trick for boatbuilding. This article shows how to make your own double bias tape.
This is the normal method for fibreglassing small areas for home boatbuilders – typically using fibreglass tape to hull seams, very common on stitch and glue and plywood boats
Slideshow of 600 photos of boatbuilding school in Adelaide South Australia. Storer boats, Oughtred boats, Redmond boats, Bear Mountain boats
A first group build of OzRacers at Duck Flat Wooden Boats
Well, I’ve just had a big day up at Duck Flat Wooden Boats doing some work on the 3 OzRacers they are building for the nationals at Goolwa in March.
I wrote this because the Star Class is one of my all time favourite boats. Crazy, fast, wonderful.
Would it be possible to homebuild a simplified construction boat in plywood and cedar strip and still hit a similar weight and stiffness as competitive boats, but at a much lower cost?
Boatbuilding school report – 12 different projects and sometimes up to 30 people miilling around.
The projects were
Two different CLC (Chesapeake Light Craft) Kayaks
Four Iain Oughtred Clinker boats – Puffin, Fulmar, a pram and a Skerry Skiff.
A couple of John Welsford’s designs a dory and a Jeanette.
A Bolger Gypsy
A Murray Isles Coorong Traveller
and one of my OzRacers
