We now have a nice flat, level surface on the keel timber, stretching from bow to stern (well, just forwards of the sail drive leg location); the rudder is now completely encapsulated and stood out of harms way; and the timbers for the in-the-shed keel construction are roughed out. Moving forwards!

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this is the video record of the build of

this

31 foot eight

sailing dory that uh that is in the

process of being built

and if you've been following you'll know

that at the moment we're working on the

on the keel construction

one of the beauties of this design of

boat is that you build them in the shop

low down and then the kill goes on

towards the end of the build and that's

what we're doing now

um at the moment i'm working underneath

the boat to to get some pieces on to

level out the rocker which is the sort

of curve of the bottom of the boat so

i've put a couple of pieces on forward

and a piece on on the aft and to flatten

that out and this week was all about

getting the final long one that goes all

the way from the forward end to the aft

end or to at least

just forward of the cell drive leg

all the way through there is about six

meters long

straight and flat

once that's in place it's a major major

step forwards because after that i go in

the shed and build the rest of the kill

in there and

at the very end shortly before launch

the whole thing will be connected

together so it's a case of getting that

flat surface through underneath

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foreign

oh

well as you can imagine cutting the

piece of wood wasn't difficult but uh

next job was then to cut the taper where

the aft end tapers down to give us a

smooth wood flow over the cell drive leg

and then it was a case of getting the

curve on that piece of wood now i put as

i said i put pieces on forward and aft

but they weren't quite in line and we

also had a very small bit of rocker

between those

so um

i marked lines across every 10

centimeters on the piece of wood but

same on the bottom of the bow and then

underneath with a spirit level and some

careful measuring i measured the

thickness required every every 10

centimeters along its length

mark that on the side of the wood

and then it's just a case of as i've

shown you before playing in an angle

down to that

line on the side of the wood preferably

just touching that line just just

thinning the line

either side

and then playing in the middle off

laying it flat blending the middle off

and keeping a careful eye that it's

square because it's most important that

piece of wood goes up square not at some

wacky angle that'll give you a keel

pointing down that who knows where

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i don't know if you can see that line

but that's

where i reckon

the profile is for this final piece

all right

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um

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then it was time to give it a dry fit to

see how it fitted

before taking it out and giving it a

thorough coating in epoxy

first with just just um resin

to soak into the wood a bit left at

15-20 minutes to to see how much soaked

in and re-coated any dry bits

also put a thin coat on the bottom of

the boat

then some epoxy thickened with

microfibers

good lot of that spread along the length

put it up

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so that was the dry fit and

astoundingly it goes up there really

well first time

i'm happy with it so

just drop it down now and uh

epoxy it up

oh

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somewhere on there

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all right

move around there

pretty good

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so

foreign

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okay

me

it was important to get that piece

clamped up well so

clamped it up with various jacks

underneath and wedges four and aft and

then

i made up some clamps with some threaded

rod

which we put through the uh kilbot holes

just drilled those out all the way

through

put some threaded rod with

bits of plywood on the bottom

and clamped it up good and tight and it

pulled up beautifully all the way along

nice ooze just the right amount of ooze

of epoxy all the way along

it's very pleased

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hmm

um

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and we're now in a very very pleasing

situation having

a piece of the kill wood running all the

way from the forward end

all the way back as far as the cell

drive leg

is level

flat all the way through and it makes

further kill progress very very simple

it's what we've been working towards

these last few weeks

it's just a bit of

boxing

is the rider completely

encapsulated now

just giving that end plate a good

sanding that you showed me glass last

week

and that is now

entirely sealed

and i think for now i should just stand

out of the way

that's them

and then was in the position of being

able to start

cutting the wood for the rest of the

kill the part of the kill that's going

to be built up here

in the shed

so i've taken some careful measurements

off the plans

and

started and here we are sat on

everything that will be the keel above

the ballast kill five lengths

of six centimeter 60 millimeter thick

dough fur 160 wide

um

ready to form up first thing i need to

do is mark out where the kill bolt holes

come through

on the top most one of them

and then i can get them glued together

drill the kill bolts through

don't be time to start thinking about

the ballast kill of course cut the uh

cup of taper for the aft end

um as with the other pieces that are

there

but yes

we hope it should go together quite

quickly now certainly the wooden section

will be time to think about balance kill

perhaps

and there we are for now

um another thing that i'm working on at

the moment is is i've done a lot of

thinking a lot of research about masts

i've come across some very very

interesting ideas

the hybrid mast idea which is a combined

aluminium tube with a wooden top mast is

certainly interesting

i'm having problems finding a seller to

sell me aluminium tubes here in germany

which is curious but i'm true

nonetheless it's a mass a lot of

thoughts a lot of research going into

mass at the moment

of an evening you know

and that's it for now

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see you next time

bye

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