Lapwing #5 build

[Dale Niemann]

Sorry John,  I just assumed you were going to put a hatch cover over the opening.  Well, you know what they say about folks that assume, they are 1st three letters of assume.

You should be fine with an open hatch.

Sorry bout that.

Dale

[John Turpin]

I need to do something there.  Maybe run a bungee cord across there to make a little gate.  I also need to cut in some limber holes so it will drain out.  Just making this up as I go along. 

[John Turpin]

Glass and graphite on the trunk sides.

[John Turpin]

The controversial ice boxes are just almost done.  Is it unwise to foam in compartments on a wooden boat?  Time will tell.  (But, in the meantime, my Diet Cokes will be icy cold!)

Three good coats of epoxy.  Two inches of foam on the sides.  Three to four inches of foam above and below.  Interior completely lined with 6 oz epoxy-soaked, fiberglass cloth over the foam.  Screened drains that empty into the cockpit.

I still need to make 3"-thick, removeable, gasketed foam "plugs" to fill the port holes under the deck plates.

[John Turpin]

The pace continues at a furious rate. Must make my May 1st launch date.

[Hirilonde]

Must make my May 1st launch date.

A goal can be a great thing, but don't let it drive you to making mistakes or lessen the fun of the process.

[John Turpin]

Inside the boat.

[DaveZ]

How'd you like cutting a hole in a perfectly good boat?  That's a a moment that one shouldn't think too much about

It's lookin' good.

DZ

[Jeff MacDonald]

Lee boards, anyone?  ;-)

[John Turpin]

Well, the first day of spring arrived.  And with it came another huge winter storm.  This is getting really old.  I live in the South to avoid things like this.

Ye Olde Boat Shop

[PAR]

104, that's it, you're in the home stretch man, hustle it up.

[PeterP]

John, I like that shop. I think you had something bigger in mind when you put that together. Must be nice to have only 104 things to do. My 104 has definitely a few more zeros in it yet. Cheers PeterP

[Richard Whitney CS#70]

Go John!  Keep up the good work.  I have stalled at the moment and the weekends are being taken up with other things.  Hope to get back to it in a couple of weeks (lots of sanding before undercoating is not the most exciting bit as you know).

[John Turpin]

Mast steps go in.  It's good luck to put a coin under your mast.  So, my main and mizzen steps have commemorative state quarters embedded.  Because the boat was designed there, a North Carolina quarter will be under the main mast.  Because it's built here, an Oklahoma quarter will be under the mizzen mast.

 

[John Turpin]

I hate sanding.  I hate my sander.  I hate boats.  I hate boat building.  I'm going to turn that big, rough, bumpy wooden thing in the workshop into firewood and take up stamp collecting. Bah!

[bruegf]

John,

Nice write up on your build.  The reason you hate sanding is you've got the wrong sander.  I don't mind it nearly as much since I bought a Festool RO125 sander and CT22 vac.  Less work, paper lasts far longer, and very little sanding dust to clean up.  The downside is that you've got to get over the purchase cost before it feels any better.  They're so darn expensive.

Fred

[Peter HK]

The reason you hate sanding is you've got the wrong sander.  I don't mind it nearly as much since I bought a Festool RO125 sander and CT22 vac.  Less work, paper lasts far longer, and very little sanding dust to clean up.

I have the same sander and vac- excellent products. It's like using a vacuum cleaner...it's much cleaner after you've been sanding than when you started.

I still hate sanding though :sad:

Cheers

Peter HK

[Guest wwbaginski]

It sounds like a nice tradition, John - those coins under a mast step - thanks for letting me know about it.  According to this I should put US dollar and Polish zloty into my boat. Hm, someone told me it would be useful to put a metall ball (of a ball bearing) centrally under a mast step to minimalize friction  between mast step and a bootom when mast rotates. A bigger one to be not fully pushed into the wood.  Probably "eagles" would suffer a bit  :???:

Have you made drain holes or channels in your mast steps? Can't see them... I ,ve found them useful after the first season on Doppio.

[John Turpin]

Have you made drain holes or channels in your mast steps? Can't see them... I ,ve found them useful after the first season on Doppio.

Hello,

Since the photos, I've drilled drain hole in the rear two steps. The fore step will be much more complicated. l will be running a plastic tube through the bottom of the mast tube, alongside the coin, through the plywood triangular step, down and along the stem, then through the fore bulkhead and into the cockpit.  Sounds straightforward, but I don't have a clue how I'll do it.

[John Turpin]

Sanding, sanding, sanding.   I hope to shoot cockpit paint later this week.