Boat Building

Dispatches from the shop: Progress reports on our boat building projects, plus some useful information for those of you who are building, restoring or repairing your own boats.

Coloured epoxy?

Submitted by Matthew on

What does it mean when your epoxy hardener comes out coloured? Will it put your project in jeopardy?

Nope. It turns out that this is not really a problem for strength or curing characteristics, only for appearance.

Crossbeam construction

Submitted by Matthew on

It's been a while since we kept you folks posted on the Starwind 860 project. Don't worry, it hasn't died – we've just been busy!

A simple trailer tongue extension

Submitted by Matthew on

Folding trailer tongues are nice, but a folding mechanism is expensive and hard to retrofit to an existing trailer.

With the local water levels already low and going lower, the time was right for us to modify Sunset Chaser's trailer for shallower ramps. Here's how we did it.

Crossbeam webs

Submitted by Matthew on

After a (rather too long) hiatus from building the Starwind 860, we're back at it with the plywood webs of the aft crossbeams. (A similar set for the front crossbeams will be built once this pair are complete.)

The trimaran's folding crossbeams are a fairly conventional box section structure, with plywood webs fore and aft joining thicker top and bottom flanges of laminated wood strips.

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