Tuesday, 8 September 2009

Helpful people

Paul at Fyne Boat Kits was once again fyne Paul, and filled me in on the epoxy system that his company offers. Even so, I think that the West system is the way to go, mainly because I can pop out and get more if I mess up.

I got a couple of responses on the song of the paddle website about the G4 PU varnish and polyester resin system of bonding to plywood. People have successfully used it to make boats. Mirror dinghies were apparently done that way. I'll mull on it some more, but I am leaning towards epoxy.

Starting to create a shopping list in an Excel spreadsheet.

Been worrying about hatches of all things. Luckily if you Google for "yacht inspection hatch" you turn up with plenty that look like this:




At considerably less than a tenner each they will go great in the end bulkheads.

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