Subject: [harryproa] Re: Solitarry build
From: "proaharry" <harryproa@gmail.com>
Date: 2/24/2010, 5:39 AM
To: harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au
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harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au

 

Needed a change, so I painted half of the inside of the windward hull. Very therapeutic. You can spend weeks getting the inside right, or you can paint it and see what sticks out as needing fixing, and fix it. Believe it or not, I chose the latter. ;-)

Used water based paving paint; sticks well to (covers, anyway) almost anything, including some oily dried mud which I couldn't get out of a corner, very hard wearing and excellent uv resistance. Not glossy, and I haven't worked out how to eliminate the brush marks so may or may not use it for the exterior. Lightens up the inside a lot.

Put a couple of bulkheads in to act as a step down into the cabin, somewhere handy to store things and a seat out of the weather. Also stiffened up the floor a lot.

Few more pictures uploaded to 15m Solitarry 2 Build. Includes one of the rudder set up. Needs to be cleaned up, but you get the idea. There is also one of infused tow. Twice as much tow as in the hand laid up one, far more even, looks elegant and adds virtually no weight. Took less time than doing it by hand.

Finally figured out a simple way to build rudders. I think. Will infuse them on Monday and see how it goes. Will also serve as a test for infusing thick tow. If it works, will do the beam next week as well.
regards,

rob
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