making float half four

Today we did try to form the foam for the last float half but our water heater went broke. We did a few panels with only boiled water and no extra heating. The bag to hold the water leaked so we stopped because the leak was too big. I have a new camera and still busy to find out how to make time lapse video's, hope to find out before the new water heater arrives.

by clicking the picture you get a time lapse movie

Space getting smaller but still useable

We pulled out the screws and then we had to pull out the float out of the frames what was not easy because it was a little stuck with some putty to some battens. Next time I use some more packing tape. After the lift out I made the stern to the proper length, after that it fits to shortest length of the garage (one side is shorter than the other). The space is very limited now to build the last float. I have to do some small work on the stern and bow because they where not good glued together, but I do that later when the frames are gone and hull two is done. The race season is also coming so I also have to prepare Thrill Seeker, I have some small jobs to do before it gets to the harbor. So the progress on Thriller will slowdown.
Last season we had a very good result with Thrill Seeker, we did win almost every race we entered.

underside of bow

Bond together

We did bond the hull together and partial taped were we could reach the seams and bulkheads.

used the hull fore laminating the tape

screwed the battens together on this side 

Ready for bonding together

This week I did some small jobs to prepare for bonding the hulls together. I glued the gusseds and the cross struts so it will be essayer later when the hulls are together. Tomorrow we bond the hulls together.

Almost togetter

Today I placed the vend hoses, did dig out some foam around the foil case and prepared the hull for the join.

chain plate fitted

To night I did fit a chain plate in the bulkhead, it was a little bit a trapeze act because the hull is hanging on the sealing but it wend well and much quicker then with my F31 because you can reach it much easier now the hulls are not glued together. I also fitted some vent joins like Nico did see joiner and vents. Still have no camera and make the pictures with the Ipad and this is not optimal.

An other day at the office

Today we did laminate hull three, it is almost production ;-) The vacuum was perfect ones again. The trick I use to get a good vacuum is to heat the tacky tape with a heat gun after I put it on the foam, see first picture. It sticks then very good. The two week schedule is not going to continue because I have to work next Saturday and we have a meeting of our multihull club CTC