Shown here are the blind fillets for the aft seats. These are done by taping the lid in place with some plastic tape along the edge, and then filleting around the edge. Once the fillet has cured the seat top is removed and you have this fillet bonded into place …
Finished sanding and re-coating the gussets, and installed the connective hardware in the main bulkheads.
After that it was a matter of cutting the boat in two. This took a good long time (hours). I didn't have the best saw for this, but it worked out for the most part …
Glassed the upper gussets, one of the more tricky glassing parts thus far. Hard to conform area so was tricky to get right.
Also glassed the daggerboard trunk, and the glassed in the tow eye at the bow of the boat.
Lot of work sanding the chines down. Days of sanding at my pace.
Did the shaping of the upper gussets, looking nice and smooth now. Very satisfying.
Drilled the hole for the tow eye in the stern. Rather scary hitting that with a hole saw after all the delicate crafting …
This seems like a small step, but took me forever. Cutting all the glass strips and peel ply, prepping, and making the time to do the whole layup was daunting. Got it all done though and it worked out pretty well in the end.
Glassed the foredeck, a rather painful sliver, filleted the newly install gussets, and clamped and installed the foredeck hatch.
Decided to tackle installing new engine mounts this winter, and it turns out it's probably a good thing I did. The old ones were obviously pretty worn, but I hadn't noticed that one of them was actually not even attached. It turns out the bold (hidden inside the attachment bracket …
Another weeks worth of work... Removed all the wires and injected the hold with epoxy. Sanded down the hull.
More work on the danggerboard trunk assembly, and glassed the bulkheads.
Installed the spacers and attached the two bulkheads together (these will be cut apart later).
Installed the main bulkheads. This …
Few days of work. Glassed the seat panels. Shaped the steam, which was a fun step got to make some good use of my new block plane, and filleted the chines.
Also started work on the bulkheads and daggerboard trunk.
Installed the steam at the front of the boat and the top aft member.
Injecting epoxy into the seams along the stitched together panels.
Attaching the gunnels, this is a challenging step to glue up and a lot of screws! Lots of prep work but nice to have them on there finally.
started work stitching the hull together
Glassing the panels
Started work on PT11 Dingy!
I've been lusting after this dingy for a few years, and finally pulled the trigger and actually ordered it. Now the challenging part of actually assembling it.
Very first step of gluing the puzzle joints together for the long panels.
Removed the old port lights. This is a scary step, but refreshing as they were leaking and extremely crazed.