Anonymous wrote:

For those who can read a dxf file, here are the working drawings we're using to make the bulkheads and temporary moulds. There’s a certain element of the time-honoured practice of “make it first, design it later” in what we’re doing. For example, we keep changing little things as we find out how things work out most economically with our sheets of plywood and the yellow cedar that we’re going to be using for framing. So I'll add finished drawings after we've used them to make the components, not before.

Hi there...for the last few months I've been trying to download or at least to take a look at these files without any success. I get some funny French blog that does not take me anywhere. I even downloaded a DXF file down loader program but to no avail.

Any suggestion or help from any of the member....it would be greatly appreciated.

thank tou in advance...please come back to eivissa49@gmail.com

Glenn, thank you for that.  At times progress seems glacial.

The SibLim Club has two new members, JRA members Phil and Mark (Icebreaker).  They helped fit the skegs and started planing the lower chine log.

However, this threw up an issue: for some reason, station 2 is incorrect and will need quite a bit of adjustment around the bilge panel.  But it also caused the chine logs to land in the wrong place.  I was a bit concerned when I was fitting them, because they needed a lot of force to put them in place, but it was Phil who made me realise that Something Was Wrong, when he was trying to mark a fair line along the log.  So we tried fitting the pre-cut plywood for the bottom and found that the logs didn't even touch it! 

To cut a long story short, I widened the notch at this station and cut the logs free. They jumped about 12mm inboard with a shout of relief!  However, they were still a bit shy of the bottom panel, so I've had to laminate a new length of wood along their inboard edge.  This is what comes of being the first builder of a new design!  Visitors who have built their own boat, have reassured me by recounting similar experiences.

More photos here.  Progress may appear to be slow, but notching for stringers and fairing bulkheads for the planking is a slow and painstaking process.  It would have been a lot slower without Bertrand, who has been putting in the hours and using clever shortcuts to make things a bit easier.

Both Bertrand and David will soon be sailing, and I'll be left very much to my own devices, but I'm sure there will be help when I need it.

Hi Annie, must apologise for our delay. We are now contemplating sailing to Norsand and using our engine to lay a mooring. Be there soon.

Now that Grand PHA has arrived in NZ, and is anchored off Norsand Boatyard, Bertrand has joined the building team, and is working on notching the bulkheads to accept the longitudinals. Just like a "barn-raising", a century or so ago, when the neighbours came to lend a hand and get the job finished quickly!