Monday, 12 October 2015

Watch This Space....

I hope to be ordering the wood for the building jigs & moulds (molds) towards the end of this week. I see that OSB Sterling Board


is cheap this month £18 (US$26) per 8' x 4' board. This is what I shall use for the moulds. I thought I should hunt around for an image of a building jig & moulds for non-technical visitors and here it is.


I've been striving to get all the outstanding tasks completed before starting the boat. I still have to fit the glass into the workshop windows, get the rest of the flower beds planted and do some portraits; see my other blog <link to portraits>
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11 comments:

  1. Valerie-Jael12 October 2015 at 10:07

    Yes, sounds like a BIG project, and I can't even pretend to understand what it involves. However, I wish you good luck! Regards, Valerie

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  2. Gatepost productions12 October 2015 at 10:36

    Thank you, Valerie.

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  3. juliefordoliver.blogspot.com12 October 2015 at 18:39

    So, John, am I to understand the top part of these forms will be the bottom of the boat????
    Got to get glass in those windows before winter.

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  4. juliefordoliver.blogspot.com12 October 2015 at 18:39

    So, John, am I to understand the top part of these forms will be the bottom of the boat????
    Got to get glass in those windows before winter.

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  5. Studio at the Farm12 October 2015 at 20:36

    Hi John,
    Now I can see what you mean - swept along in your passion of boat-building [should that be "ship-building"?] I look forward to seeing the stages as you progress, and some drawing and painting, too, when time and energy permit :)
    I was feeling somewhat swamped with animal care and preparing for teaching. I think I must write up a time schedule. And of course, I am missing those longer days of summer!
    Kathryn

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    1. Gatepost productions15 October 2015 at 02:10

      Boat building is fine, I hope to paint/draw some of the stages as I go.

      I keep getting sight of an earlier comment (on Blue Town) you made, Kathryn but I can find no trace of it to publish/reply sorry

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  6. Wanda13 October 2015 at 14:51

    I feel like I'm in Jethro's basement in NCIS where he builds his boats for therapy. Not sure he ever uses them...How would he get them out of his basement..HaHa.
    Your boats beginnings look great. My dad built a fishing boat and a canoe when I was growing up...Cancer took him at 57 so his boat building days were cut short.
    Congratulations on a long marriage...we are in the minority. Celebrated 54 this past June. I'm on a trip and my computer isn't cooperating..so using a friends to check out a few of my artist friends in blogland.

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  7. Gatepost productions14 October 2015 at 01:12

    How kind of you to comment, Wanda. I confess there is an element of therapy in my project; a revisiting of my youth. Your dad sounds a great man ... the good die young?

    Thank you, yes 56 years already and we're still teenagers at heart. I'll visit your site later. Enjoy your trip

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  8. Elizabeth Rose Stanton14 October 2015 at 08:23

    Always good to get all your ducks in a row. Looking forward to your progress—on all fronts!

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  9. Gatepost productions14 October 2015 at 09:29

    You certainly got your Duckys' in a row, Elizabeth!

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