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Under Pressure (well House bricks)

Well it was warm early evening and at least a clear run to get one side of the decking in place so with a large amount of clamps and a pile of House bricks the first side is in place. The under side of the deck coated with epoxy as was all of the faces of the stringers and ribs then with plently of hast the deck was in place.

Well no pics as yet but all ribs now fixed in place and cleaned up ready to take the deck when cut to approximate size.

Also the fitting of polystyrene through out the area to the rear of the mast step having removed all of the plastic milk containers which will help to push to the 75Kg's buoyancy each side will contain 1 X 2.4m x 50mm x 500mm less off cuts.

Well no pictures at the moment as there is not to much to show been a slow week
have managed to get the ply I want and that came from Robbins Timbers in the Bristol area

Vac pump has now also arrived so when I get back from my hols I will push on but
need most of my tools else where but cant wait to play again oh Ikea do some sheets
of poly that looks good for bagging @ around 86p a sheet its clear and a shower curtain

This bits gonna take time

Well the aft decking is and this is taking some time the main struggle of the weekend was to remove the SS screws from the track risers on each side of the hull, the first one came after a struggle so I do have a template to recreate from but the 2nd I admitted defeat with there were.

Buried screws and screws the went through the riser, the deck and almost through the inch inner frame most of these came in pairs and they just would not turn in the attempt that the glue would fail under pressure and the deck might part from the inner frame the heads were drilled off this did not help so it was destroy the riser to remove the screws with a pipe wrench.



Most of the stringers the glue has failed on so it is out with those that have failed and clean the joints off ready to epoxy them back in place the ply that was lifted off came out at 4.5mm so taking into account the ply had been treated on both sides on more on the top than the bottom I would say it was 4mm or its imperial equivalent.

Decks removed and OMG

Well the decks are off and as usual the areolite or cascamite had started to fail.

from the picture below you can see that the final section of the center spine aft of the rudder box just dropped of having been supported in place by the deck

just an example on the desk there was a section of ply that you would have thought possibly covered a hole, well it did this was possibly a quick fix for this 2 layers of ply on the casing and plenty of muck the stringer also had dropped but was not the only one i found this one was glassed back in place but also did not stick to the underside of the deck.

Having removed the deck a good number of the stringers were loose and were never fixed to the deck I am unsure if this was the intention for the deck to float between the center line and the gunwale but due to the process of treating all surfaces no addition had taken place