Section 3 is ready to see the light of day , actually has been for 3 weeks but i needed to get myself re-organised with sections 1 and 2 so i had the available space .
Moved Section 1 round the back yard and created some stands to keep it upright .
This free'd up the rotate jig so this was moved back round the front and inserted over hull section 2 , bolted it up and rotated it back to a more normal orientation . This came with a bit of drama as we had an issue with the braking line , the weight came on too fast and my daughter wasn't able to hold the hull so the first 90 degree's happened in 10 minutes and the second in 3 seconds ( OUCH ) .
Boat ended up with a cracked frame and a daughter with rope burns on her hands ( More OUCH ) .
( sorry , no pictures , was far too stressed ) .
Time to move section 3
Out it comes into the daylight .
Fully out now , time to do a bit of a tidy up , still have to remove the " Frames +1 " and clean up
the unpainted surfaces . The additional frame can be seen at the back of the hull section , its actually the first frame of the next stern section , we continue the Longitudinal stingers to this additional frame so the hull sections will be fair when they are joined . We cut it off now as its required to build the next section .
The keel runs flat from the mid-section of the boat so as you can see here ,it starts to protrude more as the hull curves back up towards the stern .
Originally i had set a timetable of 4 months for each hull section and 6 months for the bow , its taken more than this for the first 2 pieces , but at last we are getting closer to schedule , excluding the hull re-organisation , this section was basically done in the allotted time frame .
Have removed the "frames+1" and tidied up the exposed surfaces , will store this piece here until we are ready to frame up the stern section , when that happens we reposition this section back in front of the garage and connect up the two sets of frames to ensure a nice fair hull .
Back to building more frames now , stern section is slightly different as has 2 structual bulkheads , frame 17 is the separation between section 3 and the engine room and frame 20 is essentially the stern of the boat , there is also a frame 21 , but that is much smaller and is part of the step down stern platform . Need to order some more timber ( wallet opening time , OUCH )
