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| 04-Ene-2006: Beginning to close the hull by strip planking technique.The strips are going glued "in situ" with a 10 cm chamfer joint. I used epoxi glue and 2" copper nails to keep the strips together. |
04-Ene-2006: The kiri strips of 2x3cm have a concave/convex design on they upper and lower faces. I take the wood to carpentry and there they making the strips. I choosing this instead to buy a circular saw and milling machine and to make them my self for a safety reason.If an accident happening, bye-bye project!. Detail of 6" drill bit like support of the forward steam. |
04-Ene-2006: Detail of strip design and how they go covering the steam. The strips are also nailed in every section with nails that later will be removed. In this stage the epoxi glue is easy to place because the concave side of the strip works like a "gutter". |
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| 13-Ene-2006: Posing while the hull is being completed.I had to mount a provisory plastic roof due constant rain that didn't allow me to work. |
14-Ene-2006: Another view. The hull begins to show his profile. Up to now, the strips were placed relatively straight or just curving toward inside. |
14-Ene-2006: The steam goes disappearing under the strips. |
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| 16-Ene-2006: Sunny again. Uncovering a little to work more comfortable. As hull grows up, the temporary roof begins to bother because is very low. |
17-Ene-2006: Today I had my father-in-law's Oscar help that was cutting the chamfers for the strip unions, a hard work. |
17-Ene-2006: The uncle Edgar help us, always elegant.
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| 17-Ene-2006: Oscar continues cutting strips endings. |
19-Ene-2006: The strips begining to lean toward inside. Toward aft everything gets complicated more and more. |
19-Ene-2006: Contemplating the work progress (I believe that if I don't dedicate so much time to the "view" I could progressing faster). |
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| 19-Ene-2006: The steam dissapears.Begins to closing the hull towards prow.The copper nails that hold the strips can be observed. With a rounded hammer I "hide" the nails head as well as posible. |
19-Ene-2006: Front view of the closing towards prow. |
19-Ene-2006: Detail of like the strips goes converging. Now I understand the desing of steam!. It's very thin towards prow!! |
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| 23-Ene-2006: More advanced and every time more complicated at center line. The joints are uneven and need filling. Then they were sanded |
23-Ene-2006: View of tapered profile of hull toward prow. |
23-Ene-2006: Towards aft everything is more complicated. The strip are leaning in 3 differents directions at same time. As the strips going horizontaly , more epoxi glue is losted. Solution:using strips of 1,20m with nailed nails, put glue on convex face of strip and to put quickly in their place and nailing. |
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| 23-Ene-2006: I want to see the aft closed! |
23-Ene-2006: Another detail of strips leaning. |
25-Ene-2006: Due to the bend of hull I no longer arrive so with the benches use a "small" stairway. |
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| 25-Ene-2006: Finally the strips converges on aft. I begin to replace kiri for cedar on rudder axis area and keel area. |
25-Ene-2006: Detail of strip joints at center line and of the temporary nails that unite them with the sections. |
25-Ene-2006: "Serafina" inspecting the work. |
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| 26-Ene-2006:Flor used the stair making a tent for drawing and she used the kitty like a puppet. |
28-Ene-2006: Thinking about leaving the work for this month, we prepared ecuatorian cedar strips, very hard and very complicate to work. It could not nail it. I had to perforate each place for where it will pass a nail! |
29-Ene-2006: Upper view of hull where is observed the area with cedar. The temporary roof was removed. I can already walk above the hull. It is touching. Little by little I go perceiving what I am making. |
