Work weekend continues

Last night we pulled the main foil trunk off the vertical with some difficulty. The trunk is built like a brick ___ house and is so stiff that it wouldn't budge well. With some wood wedges and a lot of work the trunk is off, looks great and fits snugly when the plastic is off the vertical. This picture is of it untrimmed and overlength. There's also a picture of the foredeck area of the boat. It's ready for the inner skin and core to be laminated this morning.

When skiing and sailing mix

My wife thought of the ski bench that is the perfect way to hold the main foil horizontal and upright so that we could lay up the trunk. What a nice feature to have the right ski tools that make it easier to accomplish the task for the sailboat. The pump is still running as I write and the trunk should be built and ready to be shaped by the end of the day. Lots of layers on this trunk in order to make it strong enough, especially near the top where the pin goes through the foil.

Main Foil bulkhead (part two)

Sometimes it's hard to explain the "madness" of why you're making changes to the build but I had to try to explain my way out of this one, building and installing a new main foil bulkhead when there was a perfectly good one installed already. Long story short, it's done, there's two now and the aft one (to the right in the picture) is coming out later today. I've moved the main foil bulkhead about 15cm further forward. Next up today is to finish the layup of the main foil trunk followed a few hours later by the inner skin and core of the foredeck.

Foredeck male mold

Not having a deck mold has made things a bit more challenging so this is the result. A male mold made of 1.5mm plywood that's been steam bent to make the radius is what is needed. A little more finish work to create the nose piece and we'll start to skin it later today, October 2nd.

Dolly

A picture of the dolly with the hull in it. I hadn't tried the hull out in the dolly before, it appears to fit pretty well. Now the hull is back in the garage and I'm working on the foredeck.

Forward beam

The beam to take the load from the mast stump to the bow. Installed and now we're ready to make a foredeck and to close this area up.

Dolly and foredeck

I finally finished the dolly last night, it makes a big difference when you have the right tools. I highly recommend an oscillating spindle sander, it made the work so much easier. The pro-grip is in and it's ready for a finished boat...now where's the boat?

Last night I laid up the foredeck beam which will share the load from the mast gate/mast stump through to the bow of the boat. I got the foam core from Sam in Colorado who is doing a mega-moth build. He also sourced the honeycomb core for me. The beam just needs some cleaning up and install which will happen next week and then the foredeck will be laid up and I'll build out the whole foredeck area including the pass-through tube for the wand mechanism and then off to the rack assembly.