Building a 34' junk schooner: March 2010

Sunday, 21 March 2010

Planking

Epoxy glued and stainless ring-shank nailed to stringers - Screwed & epoxyed at the stem and stern post. Two layers of 10mm on the topsides and two 10mm’s + 6mm on the bottom. All the ply is scarfed and epoxy sandwiched together. This part of the job consumed a shed load of epoxy (West system) but had made a solid job.

painting and epoxy - glass cloth/peel ply . Sticky messy job. The whole hull covered with 200g glass cloth set in epoxy.

two pack primer

The Plan

To build J Benford’s 34’ sailing Dory ‘Badger’ for myself and Charlotte to sail the high seas on.

Our current boat Maureen was built in 1926 and has (still is) served us well over the past 8 years. She is beautiful and a joy to sail but due to her age and size she dose not have the ability to take us everywhere we would like to go. So, it was decided, to build a new boat with the reason that we would get a much better boat for the for the money compared to buying a secondhand one. I am building on my own in a s derelict shed next to my existing workshop so overhead costs are low.

The ‘Badger’ has long been a boat of interest to us (thanks Annie Hill!). When looking at the construction plans in detail with a view to build I became convinced. It looked like it should be fast and economical to construct and so far has proved to be so. I plan to do everything myself from casting the keel to sewing the sails.........

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