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Cabin boy chronicles : Part 2
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Featuring Captain's boat building (b)log the tale of two people who should have been old enough to know better! Captain's (b)log - Multichine 36 build Part 1. After all the sanding, I was ready to start glassing. I contacted a local glass fibre shop and after a visit to my workshop they decided it could be done in four days. Wrong! This proved to be quite a lengthy process - in fact it was much harder than putting the actual skin on the outside. The accuracy needed was much harder to achieve in the r...
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Cabin boy chronicles : Captain's (b)log - Multichine 36 build Part 1
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Featuring Captain's boat building (b)log the tale of two people who should have been old enough to know better! Captain's (b)log - Multichine 36 build Part 1. Captain's (b)log - Multichine 36 build Part 1. And so it begins! The stem starts to take shape. Full size half-frame templates on plasticised paper were printed locally from the .pdf files which had been provided by B and G Yacht Designs. Using fine nails, the frames' perimeters were marked on the 9 mm marine plywood - a very easy process for a chi...
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Cabin boy chronicles : June 2013
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Featuring Captain's boat building (b)log the tale of two people who should have been old enough to know better! Captain's (b)log - Multichine 36 build Part 1. Sunday, 2 June 2013. So what have you been doing today? The lights of Dunedin. Our return to reality came complete with the realisation that we only had about five weeks before we were due to fly out to the UK. Are you absolutely certain those guys will be able to get the glassing done in four days? I suspected he might! So over the next couple of ...
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Cabin boy chronicles : Part 3
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Featuring Captain's boat building (b)log the tale of two people who should have been old enough to know better! Captain's (b)log - Multichine 36 build Part 1. Fortunately, I avoided the temptation of taking photos of each completed layer otherwise I would have had a collection of pictures that looked exactly the same as each other. After all that preparation I actually found applying the four or five coats of paint that would form the basis of the finishing coats at a much later stage, quite a pleasant t...
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Cabin boy chronicles : February 2012
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Featuring Captain's boat building (b)log the tale of two people who should have been old enough to know better! Captain's (b)log - Multichine 36 build Part 1. Sunday, 19 February 2012. New beginnings - or how to become a full-time camper in one easy lesson! Yes - small but functional. How does that happen? And do you know what the really scary thing is? Caravans are affected by this phenomenon too! Ours had seemed such a good size when we saw it in Palmerston but once it arrived at our place and we start...
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Cabin boy chronicles : September 2012
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Featuring Captain's boat building (b)log the tale of two people who should have been old enough to know better! Captain's (b)log - Multichine 36 build Part 1. Wednesday, 5 September 2012. So that's what happened to summer! Launching area - Elaine Bay. Next we needed to get the water. Surely to goodness it couldn't be that hard to find. There's no way we can use that," I muttered as I threw the hose to the ground. "It smells ghastly. There has to be some somewhere else.". In real life it's actually just a...
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Cabin boy chronicles : The end is nigh...perhaps!
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Featuring Captain's boat building (b)log the tale of two people who should have been old enough to know better! Captain's (b)log - Multichine 36 build Part 1. Monday, 19 January 2015. The end is nigh.perhaps! It was during this time that I experienced a very strange phenomenon. It all started innocently enough. Do you want to come and see what I've been doing? This question greeted me soon after I had got home from work. Hey, yeah, that would be great.". I put my bag down and went out to the boatshed.
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Cabin boy chronicles : What's taken you so long?
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Featuring Captain's boat building (b)log the tale of two people who should have been old enough to know better! Captain's (b)log - Multichine 36 build Part 1. Friday, 2 January 2015. What's taken you so long? And suddenly the project is entering its third year. How did that happen? Where did all that time go? What happened to blog updates? Well might you ask! So perhaps it's about time I brought you up to date. Winter sunset over St Clair, Dunedin. So that's it then! The response was fired back instantly...
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Cabin boy chronicles : Part 4
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Featuring Captain's boat building (b)log the tale of two people who should have been old enough to know better! Captain's (b)log - Multichine 36 build Part 1. As there was also no need for a gang-way forward, I decided to place the fore water tank athwart-ships under the foot of the bed. This will be covered with a seat cushion so that when the bed is partly raised, there will be seating all around the mast support post and its (removable) table. Above is the aft cabin showing the removable mattress base...
