Here is the continuation of the building process of small tender for HAKA. The beginning can you see in the previous blog about first sailing. Last night (early morning) I did the lower side (lamination), the upper side I did already on Saturday. Here are some pictures of the work. I started with lamination at about eight o'clock (pm), and was finished at 3in the morning.

 Pieces of fiber before wetting out

 wetting out the bottom

cowering with plastic

First sailing wasn't glorious in a fact it ended after a few ours. I had a problem with the mast so i did not put up the big crab claw sail. I used the small one. We had back wind, and when the wind shifted from one side to the other, the spar broke in half when he was pushed against the mast. the position of the sail was not good. And after that the rudder broke. So after a few ours of sailing we turned

around, and vacation was over. Also the engine failed and we were towed to the port. So no I am working on new rudders, this time out of ply.

On the fourth beam, where the engine box is attached to the beam a crack appeared, so i will make new beam at home and transporte to the sea. It also has to much wait in the front so I am thinking to mow the cabin back between third and fourth one.

Now I am working on the tender for HAKA, I am making it out of styrodur and fiber.

On 6th of September i half formed styrodur, and today i will make him till the end (6th. 9.)

Broken spar just before living 

laminating and reinforcing

 Antifouling

 flying catamaran

on the trailer

on the travel lift

 

Mast is standing again

Neighbours helping raising the mast

 Home made blocks work well.

I started to make this sink last September, now it is finally installed.

Tomorrow comes final Installation, water pipe, drain, paining..

For hoisting the main crab claw sail i decided to make my own wooden pulley. For that i used left over iroko wood.

final gluing and sanding will follow.

Today I finally glued them together

sanded and shaped, now follows the coating with linseed oil

Deping into lin seed oil 

One pool is finished

after lamination i wrapped the fibers with stretch folio

 

unwrapping the folio underneath

 it is a weary nice laminate

one steel to go

 

When you laminate around styrodur you must have a long flat surface, because it bends under weight of wet fiber,  and if you would like to lay multiple layers than the previous sticks to the surface, specially if you have plastic as a surface. That again will wrinkle the fibers (in a case of quadriaxial and unidirectional fibers). That doesn't happen if you lay woven rowing (that much as by other fibers). Once you have a layer on Styrodur you can put on the stand, and than wrapping is much easier.

Coincidentall visitor of this site probably concluded that I gave up, because there were no new entries on my site. One of the reasons why I didn’t refresh the site is seen on the picture below. But now the snow is melting away weary fast and I expect that the next week I will start to work on the project again. Of course, I will need a worm up period after a long winter dormancy.

There are no visible damages, regardless of heave burden of snow, specially the ramp with the net was weary loaded.