I’m getting close on the outside of the cuddy. It’s been my night and some weekend project all summer while the hulls are my vacation time hog. I spent the day yesterday trying to picture what a battery box could look like in that forward locker. I’m pretty sure I’ll put it there, but I could think on it some more and build it after the cuddy is complete. It’s also hard because we haven’t settled on what electronics we’ll be having aboard, so I don’t know how big the battery bank would need to be. The space I’m looking at would easily fit 4 trojan T105s. (I think it would actually fit 6 and but 4 would probably do based on what I think our loads are at this point.) Originally, I had planned on doing it before I put the top of the anchor locker on, but the access is pretty good, so I could wait. I’ve noticed that I tend to put off what ever I can until it really has to be done. Sometimes that works and other times it makes it harder because the access isn’t as good.
August 31, 2008 at 5:30 pm |
How do you line the hull up straight when you do the femal mold as you have done,is it the most difficult thing?It looks very tricky from the pictures with the hull on its side …..!
Jim
August 31, 2008 at 7:05 pm |
With the lower half still in the frames, it’s still level. On my first try, I just joined it at the centerline and it looked good, so I glassed it over. I figured if you put the center line back into the shape it was on the forms, it would go back into place. Well, not exactly so, it turns out. The knuckle of the upper half sagged a bit and it became more obvious when I tried to a bulkhead in. Since the centerline was glassed, it wouldn’t budge at all, so I had to grind off. Once that was done, I simply made some supports to make sure the knuckle was the same distance from the centerline on both the upper and lower half along the entire length of the hull. After that, it was no problem to reglass the centerline and add bulkheads.