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Building a Somes Sound Wooden Boat in Hong Kong: Re-launch and first sail
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Building a Somes Sound Wooden Boat in Hong Kong. Marine wood in Hong Kong. Thursday, 10 July 2014. Re-launch and first sail. Wow, six months since the last post! Well, it's taken those 6 months. to find and fit a boom, to make the fittings for running and standing rigging and get the Mainsail made for Gabrielle. So, anyhow, here we are with the second launching of Gabrielle. We hope to tow her over to her Discovery Bay mooring next week (or so.), for her new owner David to take delivery. To mark out the ...
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Building a Somes Sound Wooden Boat in Hong Kong: August 2013
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Building a Somes Sound Wooden Boat in Hong Kong. Marine wood in Hong Kong. Friday, 2 August 2013. For Sail to good home. An SS at rest. Gabrielle is same colours. The time has come, the walrus said. I don't have any room to keep the little wooden picnic day-boat I built (aka "Gabrielle"), so I'm inviting interest form someone who would like to take her over in as-is shape. And that's basically finished, but with mast to be stepped ( mast included. And sails needed. Sitting at the RHKYC boatyard.
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First time wooden boat builder - Somes Sound 12 1/2: October 2013
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First time wooden boat builder - Somes Sound 12 1/2. Sunday, 27 October 2013. Somes Sound - Midpoint of build? Been busy lately on the internal fit out and getting to the stage where my boat is beginning to take shape. Some days I seem to make great progress, others you spend hours seemingly getting nowhere. I debated on using some of the Sapele ply as it is such a good quality ply, but the rotary saw pattern isn't quite so authentic at the real board. Smelt We fired up our old lead smelter, and poured a...
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First time wooden boat builder - Somes Sound 12 1/2: May 2015
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First time wooden boat builder - Somes Sound 12 1/2. Monday, 11 May 2015. She Floats - Somes Sound finally launched! Saturday 4am - Siobhan my wife tells me go back to sleep - Santa hasn't come yet! I was like a kid waiting to launch my new boat! We decided to have some sea trials on Saturday ahead of the formal launch party on Sunday - which was yesterday. Here she is before heading from our home:-. All loaded up and ready for the road. We rigged the sails and everything seemed to fit! Later on Siobhan ...
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Building a Somes Sound Wooden Boat in Hong Kong: July 2014
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Building a Somes Sound Wooden Boat in Hong Kong. Marine wood in Hong Kong. Friday, 25 July 2014. Gabrielle comes back to Discovery Bay. What a decent mooring! Would hold a Super-tanker, that. In Nim Shue Wan bay, Discovery Bay, Hong Kong. Yesterday, we towed Gabrielle back to her permanent mooring in Discovery Bay. We'd taken her over the wall last year. And then it's been a while getting all the bits and pieces ready for her to be brought to her permanent mooring, back here in Discovery Bay. One of the ...
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Building a Somes Sound Wooden Boat in Hong Kong: Gabrielle comes back to Discovery Bay
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Building a Somes Sound Wooden Boat in Hong Kong. Marine wood in Hong Kong. Friday, 25 July 2014. Gabrielle comes back to Discovery Bay. What a decent mooring! Would hold a Super-tanker, that. In Nim Shue Wan bay, Discovery Bay, Hong Kong. Yesterday, we towed Gabrielle back to her permanent mooring in Discovery Bay. We'd taken her over the wall last year. And then it's been a while getting all the bits and pieces ready for her to be brought to her permanent mooring, back here in Discovery Bay. One of the ...
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First time wooden boat builder - Somes Sound 12 1/2: February 2014
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First time wooden boat builder - Somes Sound 12 1/2. Wednesday, 12 February 2014. Spent quite a while sanding and filling and fairing the lead keel into the hull. Spent a whole day dusting and vacuuming the shop to eliminate as mush dust as possible. Then I hung a polythene tent over the hull to prevent any further dust from landing on it. I applied 3 coats of primer and lightly sanded in between. With Brian's help, I have since sanded down the second coat to a flat uniform finish and am pondering how to...
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First time wooden boat builder - Somes Sound 12 1/2: June 2014
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First time wooden boat builder - Somes Sound 12 1/2. Thursday, 26 June 2014. Progress has been slow as I had been waylaid on another project. However, I have been fitting some smaller trim pieces, which are quite time consuming. You can see from the photo opposite that there remains a space underneath the mast step to the keelson - which seems to be as per the plans. However, I read on the glued lapstrake forum that some have allowed the step to sit directly on the keelson, following its contours.
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First time wooden boat builder - Somes Sound 12 1/2: April 2015
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First time wooden boat builder - Somes Sound 12 1/2. Sunday, 19 April 2015. Don't sweat the small stuff - Bilge Pump Installation. Don't sweat the small stuff! Well easier said than done when trying to figure out where to drill holes in the bottom of your new boat! Here you can also see where I installed the ships compass on top of the centreboard trunk cap. I elected to position it forward, so that other crew might be able to monitor it. Bilge Pump exit through 3/4" bronze skin fitting. I played back an...
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First time wooden boat builder - Somes Sound 12 1/2: April 2014
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First time wooden boat builder - Somes Sound 12 1/2. Saturday, 26 April 2014. Finally I have installed the coamings and I declare to quite pleased with the result! If you look closely you can see where I re-modeled the plank of 10" sapele so that I could get the deck curve out of the smaller stock - otherwise I would have needed a 14" wide board. Even though you can see the different wood grain, the fact that both sides are symmetrical makes it quite attractive - at least to my eyes. Subscribe to my Blog.
