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    AJ, I bet the hardest moments were those just after the realization that all was not well. That horrible confrontation with the fact that all the work so far had come to this irrepairable mistake, then you get angry, then you get sad then you think that there are plenty of other, much better things that you could be doing with your time, and WHY THE HELL SHOULD I BOTHER, and then you stop caring, and after a few drinks you attack the thing with a very scary tool, but because you don't care anymore you find the old flow comes back and suddenly it all seems possible again.

    Well done AJ it looks terrific again.

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    Thankyou Rob
    Yes the worst bit was facing the fact that something really was not right.
    I think I'd been in denial up to that point.

    Sort of rolled anger, bargaining, & depression into one single sickening emotion & in
    that spirit hefted the Very Scary Tool.

    Acceptance came well after the jigsaw, about 1/2 way through marking out the
    location for the new hole. At about the same time as I realized that this wasn't going
    to be as difficult or disastrous as first thought. Especially once the angle grinder
    made such short, easy work of the clean-up. (The chooks whose enclosure I did the
    sanding beside will probably contract some foul lung disease if they live long enough.)

    cheers
    AJ

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    G'day AJ,

    I just found this thread and what a cracking blog it is!

    I love the lines of your kayaks - all of them and your comprehensive build piccies explain even more. If you don't mind too much, I will drop in here from time to time to ask questions.

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    Thanks Mick.
    You do a nice line in JEM boats yourself !
    Was browsing their forum last night.
    Looking forward to maybe bumping into the Onka Laker chap sometime.
    cheers
    AJ

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    Easter weekend was chock-full of other things. Hardly touched it, & won't touch it at
    all now for another week or two. Did quite a bit of sanding, getting the new coaming
    glassing ready for painting or adding a coaming lip.

    Measured up the new bulkhead for behind the paddler & cut it out.
    Also measured & marked ot the coaming lip. Looking to minimise wastage & the size
    of ply off-cut needed to extract the shape, I do it in two halves. Rather than join these
    at the centre-linewhere there is maximum curvature & stress, I cut fore and aft
    sections & join them at the sides. Shapes derived by simply tracing around the
    cockpit cut-outs .

    The coaming lip needs to be a bit over width to ensure there is plenty of overlap
    when offered up to the coaming upright. (there may be proper names for these two bits
    but I dunno what they are.) I made the marking jig up 3 boats ago.
    Trick is to concentrate on tracking the coaming tracing line with the guide line across
    the jig, keeping the two ends of the guide on the traced line. Coaming lip blank is
    oversized 15mm inwards & 35mm outwards. Once glued in place, it is brought down
    to size.

    Have run out of fine jigsaw blades, so couldn't cut them out - coarse jigsaw blades
    make a mess of the Pac.Maple ply.

    Packed away all the tools which have littered the back verandah for weeks.
    Back into it in about 2 weeks or so. The end is in sight. Approx order to completion:
    • mark & trim down coaming upright
    • glue in some locating tabs for the new bulkhead.
    • join the deck & hull
    • sand & glass the deck
    • pre-coat & fit the 4 bulkheads (haven't worked out how to reach the end ones yet. If I can't reach them, I'll omit them. They just keep stuff in the chambers from disappearing into the ends of the boat, no structural purpose this late in proceedings.)
    • mucho sanding exterior
    • fit coaming lip, fillet under & shape to final size
    • varnish coaming & interior
    • mask coaming & paint exterior
    • add fittings - foot-rests, hatches, handles
    cheers
    AJ

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    Ambidextrous? Or have you got a left-handed pencil?

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    AJ,

    The "Onkalaker chap" is enjoying the thread and recommends that you check your PMs..
    Cheers, Bob the labrat

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    G'day Bob! and welcome aboard mate.

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    Home from hols at Coffin Bay & Pt Lincoln.
    Note to self... take boats next time. Both of them fantastic places for small boats.
    And fishing. And oysters. Were it not so remote, Coffin would be THE ideal location
    for a several day Ubeaut Wooden Boat Squadron regatta. We were forced to dine
    cheaply at the yacht club, golf club & hotel on meals that overflowed a 13" dinner
    plate. Also a pizza with lashings of topping and taste on another night.
    Went out with a Pt Lincoln dragon boat club on a training paddle one evening.

    Many, many non boat-building chores to do on return home. Only progress was about
    45 mins in which I cut out the coaming halves (with new fine-toothed jigsaw blade -
    sweet!! ), glued in some locator blocks for new bulkhead & precoated 1 side of all
    4 bulkheads. No pics of boat building so here's some of Coffin & Lincoln instead.

    Night-shift this weekend. Will have a few days off next week to do some more damage.
    I hope.
    cheers
    AJ

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    Sounds like you had a great time AJ and yes the west does have some terrific spots. Lincoln would be ideal for a regatta.

    Back to the grind stone eh and boat building

    Cheers
    Mike

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    Got a bit done yesterday morning after work. Chiselled off the redundant bulkhead
    locating blocks. At which point I realised that moving the bulkhead forward 200mm at
    the widest point of the boat has vastly increased the volume of that stowage
    compartment.

    Then sanding & more sanding. By hand.

    Also mixed up some peanut paste to fillet the coaming. Half way through pumping
    resin I was interrupted. Was that three or four pumps ??
    Stuffit ! Botecote doesn't seem too sensitive to slight variations in ratio, so I added
    another half pump of resin and an extra drop or two of cold weather accelerator.
    Formed the fillet and went to bed. It was nearly hard when I woke up this evening.
    Too hard to do the old wet thumb final smoothing. More sanding. *sigh*

    Mucho condensation dripping off the alsynite verandah roof during the night at the
    moment - cold, calm & humid. Have to ensure only epoxy coated surfaces face
    upwards. Have got a bit of polytarp somewhere that I've used in past autumns/winters
    to cover things but not sure where it is now. Probably the bin - it was pretty clagged.
    When Uncle Kevin's stimulus money arrives I might splash out on a new one

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    Mmm... and here we were grizzling about the hot weather.
    Coffin Bay looks stunning, but a long way for Victorians. I'd love to bring a boat (and camping gear) over to the general area in the next year or two. How many hours from Adelaide is it?

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    "vastly increased the volume of that stowage
    compartment. "

    There's always a silver lining - you just have to look for it!

    I'm interested in attending the official launch - would give us a chance to compare designs. Any idea how long it will be til you head for the water? (Remember the formula: pick a number of days that will give ample time to finish the job then double it and add 2 weeks).
    Cheers, Bob the labrat

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    Rob
    Coffin Bay is about the same travel time again from Adelaide as Adelaide is
    from Melbourne. Call it 7 - 8 hrs. Pt Lincoln is half an hour closer.

    Bob
    Launch date... has been chiselled in custard and will be the... dang! The
    custard has flowed back over the chiselling. Will let you know. The official
    guesstimate is June/July. -ish. And of course, every silver lining has a
    cloud... I can hardly reach the front of the compartment from the hatch,
    positioned centrally when the compartment was 200mm shorter...

    Progress...
    Bought a new battery pack for the $12 cordless drill this morning. Cost $25,
    but came with a charger and a spare cordless drill... Also lashed out on a box
    of decent bits. The ones I've been using to date are mostly around 20yrs old
    and feeling every minute of it.

    Got home from work & various other commitments just after lunch & thought..
    "I'll just sit the deck on top of the hull, just to see what it looks like."
    Of course, it promptly fell off.

    So I figured I'd just fit a couple of clamps, just to hold it in place before going
    to bed for a few hours.

    Well, you know how it goes.
    A few clamps show up a 'high' spot. So I fitted a few more clamps. Which
    showed up a significant irregularity. So I drilled and screwed a pulling plate to
    bring the edges back into line.

    Now the bit on the other side of the clamp that looked all right before, looks a
    bit off. So I cut & fit some more pulling plates. Which brought all the middles
    into line.

    But now the tips of deck & hull don't -exactly- line up. So I cut & fit some
    aluminium channel pulling plates to force the tips into alignment.

    By the time it was all ticketty-boo, it was 5pm & time to start making dinner.
    So I took photos, and hunted out the scungy old polytarp cover to ward off
    the condensate 'rain' tonight.

    Looks all right. I think I can live with this boat. Might even put my name to it
    somewhere.

    cheers
    AJ

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    Looking good - love the profile view!

    June or July launch eh? Might have to invest in an ice pick...........
    Cheers, Bob the labrat

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