https://heavencanwait.blogger.de/ Blogger.de heavencanwait 2008-03-13T14:51:49Z en hourly 1 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z https://heavencanwait.blogger.de/stories/1072111/ Like everyone can see this blog hasn't been too busy. Since a long time I was having problems with blogger.de. Thus I have moved my blog to www.foilermoth.blogspot.com the story will continue... Blogger.de heavencanwait Copyright © 2008 heavencanwait 2008-03-13T14:51:49Z https://heavencanwait.blogger.de/stories/1018594/ 2 weeks without a single post a much too long. So here's what we have done in the meantime: - the hood - deck stringers - deck form - outrigger form Next week we want to insert the center-board casing and the mast pole, laminate the gantry and start with the frame. Here are some pics: Blogger.de heavencanwait Copyright © 2008 heavencanwait 2008-01-14T11:31:57Z https://heavencanwait.blogger.de/stories/1005487/ Today we laminated the hood and two panels for the stringers. We also finished up the hull and tempered it. I am leaving for some snowboarding in a couple hours but Klaus and Helmut want to work on the deck and stringers on Monday. Blogger.de heavencanwait Copyright © 2007 heavencanwait 2007-12-29T14:49:41Z https://heavencanwait.blogger.de/stories/1004479/ Today we laminated the hull. First we waxed the mould like crazy. I am still not sure if we put enough wax on, we will find out rather sooner than latter. After the wax was hard we rolled the first layer of epoxy on the hull. Then the first layers of carbon were layed out in the mould, fitted in place by loads of epoxy. Now the foam was put in the form, all edges were filled with a mixture of epoxy and microballoons. Blogger.de heavencanwait Copyright © 2007 heavencanwait 2007-12-27T17:36:46Z https://heavencanwait.blogger.de/stories/1002284/ Today we finished all the preparations for hull lamination. This means we cut all the foam and made templates for the cut outs for the next couple boats. Then we cleaned the form and cut all the carbon fibre for lamination. Now we will take a Christmas brake and meet on Thursday again to laminate the hull. Yesterdays test went quite well, but we discovered, that we haven't waxed the countertop good enough. We got the board loose with a little force. We definetely need wax like crazy on Thursday. Blogger.de heavencanwait Copyright © 2007 heavencanwait 2007-12-23T17:48:16Z https://heavencanwait.blogger.de/stories/1001814/ Today we have worked on the actual building for the first time. Therefore we tried to get the vacuum pump working. First the pump was not running at all. We found out that the rotor was blocked by a small part of metal that was lost in the inside. After that problem was fixed we were suprised to find out that our vacuum pump was not sucking in air but blowing air out. So after four hours we were finally able to laminate our first test. For the test we laminated a panel measuring 50 cm * 120... Blogger.de heavencanwait Copyright © 2007 heavencanwait 2007-12-22T21:45:16Z https://heavencanwait.blogger.de/stories/1001757/ I know that I haven't posted for quite some time and I know you think that we are not progressing at all. The first two weeks we have set up our shop and ordered all materials for the first four boats. While we waited for the materials we have started to change the female plug. We have cut off part of the form and thus lowered the whole boat by 7cm and narrowed it to a deck width of 39,5cm. As the form was lowered the hood didn't fit anymore. So we cut off part of the hood mould, too.... Blogger.de heavencanwait moth Copyright © 2007 heavencanwait 2007-12-22T21:18:46Z Search this site: q https://heavencanwait.blogger.de/search