Setting up molds. Note alignment string contraption.
Station molds on strong back. Unfortunately, alignment string contraption is not stiff enough and drifted out of true. So I will start over with some improvements, and also use a jig to hold the plumb bob in place as I work. It will probably be better to make the string holder so that the stems can be faired with battens without taking the string down.
Ulua progress has been a bit slow, owing to weekends taken up with rowing (around Alameda in a windstorm), sailing and fishing, completing some projects on the Searaven, and procrastination. The molds are up though, and I hope to have everything aligned and the hull planked through Labor Day Weekend, since the following weekend I will be at the Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend.
Other progress
- Fabricated inner stems from mahogany
- Purchased ash and mahogany for i’akos
- Purchased doug fir for boom
- Puchased foam, fiberglass, and epoxy from Fiberglass Hawaii for hull sheathing and ama
- Purchased windsurf board mast (Fiberspar 3200 460)
- Received quote from sailmaker (Halsey Lidgard in San Mateo)
Next
- Buy and install bandsaw. Table saw/jig saw not enough!
- Fair stems with spokeshave
- Complete mold alignment
- Plank hull
Looks like it’s coming along nicely! I really like seeing her bit by bit like this. Thanks for posting status reports!
Thanks, hope to have someting really good to show in a week’s time.
I’m glad to see the progress.
While visiting Gary he told me that you can plank the hull in two days.
But it is just the beginning.