Project Log: Monday, January 20, 2014
With some time available during the day, I continued
work on the bulwarks, sanding and varnishing once more.
Note: no photos for this day's work. As I
prepared to post this update, and after downloading
photos from my camera, I experienced a computer crash,
and was unable to retrieve various data from a failed
hard drive, including these photos that had not been
backed up elsewhere.
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Imagine pictures of the varnished bulwark
planks here. |
Continuing to close in the decks and make the boat
weathertight, I turned to the deck hatches. I'd
sourced (much earlier) three new Vetus Magnus hatches:
a large one for the forward cabin, and two smaller ones
in the main cabin. With the openings already
prepared during earlier stages of the project,
installation of the hatches was generally
straightforward.
In each case, I performed a dry-fit, then predrilled and
tapped fastener holes for machine screws, in my habitual
way. This done, I cleaned the mounting surfaces
and applied beads of sealant to the hatch flange, then
installed each hatch with new fasteners into the tapped
holes, cleaning up excess sealant afterwards. |
Imagine pictures showing drilled and
tapped holes, then a hatch with sealant gooped on its
mounting flange, then the same hatch in place with
sealant squeezed out all over, and finally the same
hatch with the sealant cleaned up. |
I repeated this process for the second hatch in the main
cabin. |
Imagine the
same set of pictures described above, but on the other
side of the boat. |
Afterwards, I turned to the forward hatch. The day
was growing late, but I'd enough time to dry-fit the
hatch and prepare the fastener holes. I left the
final installation for another time rather than try to
rush through in the time I had remaining. |
Visualize the larger forward hatch
opening with drilled and tapped holes around it. |
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Total Time Today: 3.25 hours
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