408 hours to date.
Sept 1 10 hour: Finish Tbar on stb inner panel. Cut groove for deck in toerail, also now beveling groove with grinder. Built lattice blocks and blocked hulls up 6" and level on WL for and aft. Pulled inner topside into place and tacked about 10'. Got two hulls now, still a bit of work to do finishing the tack up.
Sept2 1 hour: Cut notch in tbar for frame 4 and printed pattern for frame 2.
Turkey Vultures gathering overhead in the afternoon.
Sept 6 8 hour: Bend barstock for frame 1s and make fitup template for frame 1.
Sept 7 9 hour: Finish tackup of aft end of stb hull topsides, start joing offcuts to form plate for frame 1s.
Sept 8 2 hour: Assemble and fit in place port hull frame 1.
Sept 9 1 hour: Finish assembly of offcuts for stb frame 1.
Sept 13 6 hour: Trim stb frame 1 and fit ring and put in hull.
Sept 14 4 hour: Rig rain tarp and loft frame 6. Pull another plate and rough cut bridge deck mid section and put in place. Balance of plate is for frame 7s.
Sept 18 1 hour: Fit up templates for frame 7.
Sept 20 6.5 hour: Joined offcuts to frame 7 plate. Cut out port frame and formed hatch ring.
Sept 21 8 hour: Finish port frame 7 and tack in place. Finish stb frame 7 and put in place for tackup.
Three frame in 5 more to go.
Sept 22 3 hour: finish tackup of stb frame 7 and pull another plate and cut off section for frame 2. Weld 2 stringers ( out of 5 total ) complete with rat holes for drainage onto forward bridge deck and put in place. Decided to use transverse framing for this part of bridge ( had been considering for and aft )... an 'In building design decision'
Sept 27 3.5 hour: Move shapes to winter storage area. Two 6" tubes are for bow tube and main boom. 5" tube for jib boom, and a bunch of sch 40 and 80 small pipe for lifelines, some tbar for the deck framing plus some hull stringer section for under the bridge and some plate off cuts for whatever.
Sept 28 7 hour: Pull in and weldup port topsides at bow. Rig tarp over port bow.
Sept 30 1 hour: Pull port bow into position with a zillion clamps and 2 pieces of tbar. Stb side is 1/4" high so will grind tacks on front 8' or toe rail and drop down ( uggh ).
Probably wont get much more done on primary structure this winter... will try to work on bits like rudders, mooring posts, windlasses etc. Here are some pics of her about as she is now.
479 hours to date.
Oct 5 5 hour: Tack bracing in port bow and start fitup of bow cone. Pull in front end of stb hull topsides. Weld up more frame work to support tarps.
Oct 11 4 hour: Finish tarping port hull.
Oct 13 2 hour: Cut pipe and bar for 4 mooring bits. 3.5" sch 80 pipe ( 4" od ) with 1" round bar bits.
Oct 19 1.5 hour: Drill mooring posts for 1" bar.
Oct 20 5 hour: Weld in bits on mooring posts. .045 26v 5.5 feed. Bevel back 1/8" on hole. Really likes it hot! Tarp front of stb hull. Tape edges of plate stack to prevent rain getting between the sheets.
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