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| Charles:
Hi all, Ive been lurking here for a couple of years now so thought i ought to show my face. I found the forum when i was thinking about buying myself a lathe and stumbled across Andrews Traub rebuild thread - excellent reading, thanks Andrew! I have a few current projects; The ongoing renovation of an old wooden sailing yacht, Currently working on a new bowsprit after last winters gales destroyed the old one Building an FRP composite sea kayak Converting my milling machine to CNC & if our house purchase goes through, building a new workshop I'll try and share a few of these as they progress, hopefully someone will find it interesting |
| awemawson:
Charles welcome to the forum, good to have you pop your head above the gunwale :thumbup: I used to live in Southampton myself - where abouts are you? |
| Charles:
In Eastleigh at the moment, The new house is in Petersfield, so will be moving that way in a couple of months if all goes well... |
| Brass_Machine:
Hi Charles! :wave: Welcome to the collective :borg: So.... I want to hear about the FRP sea kayak. I have been debating taking that plunge in a year or so myself. Also, tell us about your CNC conversion! Eric |
| Charles:
Hi Eric, The sea kayak is being built in a mold i acquired via eBay, not sure of the design, but about 17' long and quite high volume - which suits me at 6'2" I built a very light polyester / chopped strand boat from it a couple of years ago which paddled beautifully but regrettably sank on the Solent during a trial paddle, however i did get enough paddling in to convince myself that the design & mold where worthwhile, so I am prepared to invest some better material in another boat The mold is in 3 parts, a forward and after deck section, and a 1 piece hull. Progress so far is to make the two deck sections, Layup is: Polyester gel coat, then 200g CSM & 450g carbon bi-ax infused with epoxy. I've not been able to balance them on my scales, but i estimate about 5-6Kg total for the deck. Hull will be Gel, 200g CSM, 300g e-glass twill, 3mm PVC foam, 300g e-glass twill. with some carbon UD down the center and along the gunnels. Biggest challenge with the hull is working out how to fit it into the garage, I've acquired a couple of extra machine tools since i built the last one... Sorry no pictures, lost them when my last phone died |
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