Turnover day today

Looks like varnish on the transom, but it's just clear
epoxy, which needs sanding then about 6 layers of
varnish.  The white paint is undercoat; final colour
British Racing Green, aka "Sea Green"

Just before paining outer stem, keel and deadwood.

About 8 guys have committed to coming by 3:00 pm today to help turn her over and put her on the cradle for the next stage of the build: sheer clamp, decks, seating and coaming. Then off to the club for the lead keel.

Painting

This looks pretty cool!  Yin-yang.... The starboard side
is painted in white undercoat, the port side in epoxy
ready to take its layer of white.  After another coat of
white, we'll turn it over and later paint it in final colour:
British Racing Green, like the example at the head of
this blog.

Just another shot, from before the sanding and painting.

I'm going to paint the whole hull in British Racing Green...

A Jaguar XK140 in British Racing Green.  (I used to own a maroon XK-120)

.... without worrying about the waterline.  That's a whole lot easier than having to work out the waterline, then painting below the waterline a different colour (usually black) and I justify it by it's being like the cool new look of Ker 40s which are all one colour....

A Ker 40. Black & Red... And White all over...

Keel and centreboard trunk added, and the Bl#$%y Deadwood too

This is what she looks like now, with outer Stem added
Keel added, Deadwood added and Centreboard trunk added

Arlene cuts the Centreboard Trunk Cleat

Arlene cuts the hole for the centreboard slot

Cutting the centreboard trunk slot

The Centreboard Trunk with its cleat at top.  We joined this up to the hull
with 4-foot long Japanese clamps. That worked well. Then 2" screws to hold it.

Cutting the Deadwood was a real hassle.  Neither our Band Saw nor our
Table Saw was big enough to cut it, so we had to cut by hand and by
cross cutting by band saw and jig saw.  Here you see a plywood pattern
to try to make sure the whole thing came to some approximation of
what it was supposed to.

And this is it in its original form, after hand cutting and band-saw
cutting.  A real hassle and it turned out to be a bit of a dog's breakfast....

And here it is on the boat.  Still needs some trimming.... The magic of
epoxy putty will help too...

The reason for the Deadwood being such a hassle is that neither my table saw nor my band saw was big enough to cut it.  Mine are good house-hold versions, but I think what's needed are industrial versions, with a jaw of 12" for band saw or radius of 10" for table saw.  

Planking finished...

Last board on.  Kind of looks like it's s'posed to... 

Somes Sound 12.5 in backyard, Hong Kong.

This is why wife Jing is a touch annoyed about this,
taking over the patio where she wants to hold parties...

Not too bad, I'm kind of pleased with it.  Looks a lot like the photos...  Mind you, I wouldn't want to have other builders of the Somes Sound 12.5, like its designer John Brooks, or Dave in California, to have too close a look. She's a touch beamier and more flared forward than the plans.  Not deliberately, mind, but because of my imperfect bevelling technique from plank #3 onwards. (once one plank didn't meet the mold, the subsequent ones were impossible to meet the mold...)
Dave, meantime, has nearly finished his gorgeous version of this little beauty.
Next: to put in the Centreboard box, then on with the Outer Stem, Keel, Deadwood and Keel filler, before she's turned over.

Putting on last board

Arlene gluing #8, last week.
Today (26 October), we put on the last
board, the "Sheerstrake".  Then, a few bits
and pieces, like keel, and turn over.

Have been away for a while, racing our "other boat",  Xena, in the China Coast Regatta and the race to Hainan Island.  That is, we've been "going for a yacht", as our Kiwi crewmates say.
Just back a few days ago.  Racing with some success, having won our Division of the China Coast Race and now the China Coast Race Week Regatta, for which all we had to do was finish in the race from Hong Kong to Hainan Island in China.  Nice start photo here.

Boarding (Planking) ...

Garboard and #2

#3

#4

#5 and Starboard #6

The cardboard pattern we use for planking, each one
measured up for the relevant plank.  Seems to work.
Note the two dogs: our technical advisers: Marcus
and Basil (with cone to stop him scratching himself)

Dan. And... a bit of "Yikes!" as the boards go on...

Had a bit of a backward movement last week ("Yikes"), when I found that the two layers of the Keelson had come apart in places.  This was due to only putting on Epoxy resin, and not putting on Epoxy putty.  I've learnt the lesson on that. Had to break it apart and re-glue properly.

Glue-ing the Keelson, second time around.  The trick here to avoid this is
to put on epoxy liquid, then thicken it with thickener to make it putty
then put the putty on thick so that it seeps out when you tighten it with screws.
To be fair to John Brooks, the designer, and his Book, he does say this. Just
that somehow I 'd ignored it... If you're building one of these: don't ignore this!

Mate Dan Kennedy, lives in Birmingham, spends 1/3 his time there, 1/3 in Perth
with one daughter and 1/3 here with another daughter.
We're swimming mates.  He left for UK last week.  Back next June.

Well, after regluing the Keelson it seemed fine, and we
managed to get the first two boards on. Now on the fourth

A "dory gain" at the inner stem. End bits still need to be trimmed off.