knottyBuoyz III The TW28 Project

[Knottybuoyz]

Hey fellas

Been puttering away on the main cabin top and ceiling. Learning a lot expecially big box store T&G is shit. I may at some point in time replace these with making my own. Anyhow. Started the day yesterday with dryfitting the marine ply to the cabin top.



The eyebrow was first. Lining it up carefully so the rest sort of all into place.





The 8' wide panels weren't quite wide enough to give me the overhang I'm looking for so I pulled them down and scabbed on an 1-3/4'rs piece to each end. This will give me plenty to trim back to the desired width.



While the epoxy cures I moved onto putting the T&G on the last section of the main cabin. These will panels will be glued togethe into 4 larger panels that can be removed if niecessary. Which it likely will at some point.



I'll have to bring them all down, sand down and fair before paiting again. I got one foot too far ahead of myself. Not knowing what I'm doing is par for this project. Anyhow it will work fnie for now. Might not look exactly nice but it's functional.



That's about it for now. It's going to take a few days to get the two sheets finished before they can be put back up on the boat in prep for glassing. Until then Lori and I will be staining and finish coating the cherry cabin sides.

Standby....

[Jeff]

Nice progress Rick!!! Jeff

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Once that t&g is up you may find that it isn't so bad, it looks pretty nice in the photos. I do see daylight between some of the boards, which I wouldn't expect . . but once it's finished you may find it's good enough.

I recently watched one of your old videos, sanding and fairing the hull bottom (may have been part XXI or XXV), fascinating! LoL, it's encouraging to see the cabin taking shape.

[Knottybuoyz]

Thanks Jeff & pee wee. I look back at some of those crappy video's and I don't remember doing half that stuff. I do remember fairing the hull. Took me one whole summer. Kind of like fairing a school bus after you've filled in the windows. The daylight you see in the ceiling will disappear. Not all the panels are glued together yet and the cabin top is not installed yet. That's coming soon.

Today Lori and I tried our hands at conditioning the cherry veneer & staining. One success and one with some blotchiness. Not sure what we did wrong on the second one. It's in the pics below. May not have left the conditioner on long enough.







I'm going to try my hand at putting the poly finish on the first test piece tomorrow.

Standby.

[Jeff]

Nice work Rick!! Jeff

[Knottybuoyz]

So this morning Lori and I continued our experiments in staining and finishing. I got three coats of varathane on my test panel. It turned out absolutely perfect. Almost idiotproof.
Lori got her test panel conditioned and stained and will put the finish on tomorrow.





The colour is identical to our kitchen cupboards which is what we were looking for. Now once she gets her test panel finished we'll go into production and finish the interior panels. It's going to take about 3-4 days with wait times etc.

Cheers

[Knottybuoyz]

Yesterday's vLog update on YouTube. You guys would have seen a lot of this if you've been following here or on Facebook.

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[Knottybuoyz]

First two of the main cabin side panels dryfit. Apologize for the crappy picture.

[Knottybuoyz]

Hey folks

So today in the boat shop I had to get to work on the main cabin top. This is where a lot of stuff will be going on. First up was laminating the underside of the 'eyebrow'. Pretty straight forward stuff.



Next up was locating where the windshield wiper motors will go. There's not enough room between the top of the windscreen frames and the cabin top. My solution, after much navel gazing, is to make hollow bases for the searchlights, yes there will be two of them.






I made the bases from 4 layers of marine ply, this is why you keep your offcuts, cut into concentric smaller circles.





These bases will get filled and faired and will be vacuumed bagged onto the eyebrow once it's installed.

That's about it for now. Cheers!

[Knottybuoyz]

My not so elegant solution to hiding the wiper motors. I have to invert them so they don't interfere with the windscreen frame. Problem was how to hide them as they now stick through the eyebrow.











These bases will be filled and faired then full incorporated into the cabin top when it's glassed.

Standby...