About Hard Tack

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I am a carpenter by trade, and also work as a college professor helping students prepare to get their Red Seal Certificate through apprenticeship training.

I am planning on building a boat shed to build my 38' Centennial Spray, designed by Bruce Roberts, based on the design of The Spray sailed by Joshua Slocum.

The sailboat will be build using the strip plank laminated veneer method describe in "The Gougeon Brothers on Boat Construction". I personally have no issues with using a wood epoxy base for the hull of the boat, as the sailboat I have now (a Thunderbird) is a plywood epoxy hull and is 35 years old and the only hull issue I have had with it, is where fresh water soaked into the plywood from inside because of storage issues (sat for 1 year with 6 inches of water/ice in the bilge) before I purchased it.

Fairing the deck and hull of the Thunderbird. Converting red soil to green grass - Episode 36

We continue to fair the hull and deck to get it ready to paint. Also the weather turns nice and we focus on the yard for a while, attempting to change the red soil to green grass. Hopefully it worked.

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Fairing Started - Episode 35

We finish the repairs for the Thunderbird and start fairing it.

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Epoxy and Fibreglass Work - Episode 34

Continuing work on the Thunderbird sailboat, we dive into the patching and repair of the rot that was in the boat. Ready now to start fairing it.

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