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    Posted: 04 Aug 05 at 10:43pm
Originally posted by TheSeaFalcon

 Looks great, I could never do something like that!


These things really aren't as difficult as you might think. Without wanting to take anything away from Tim's efforts, the basics of epoxy/carbon boatbuilding are really pretty straightforward. With experience what you mainly gain is neatness, lower weight and less time to do it.

You can spot a Bloodaxe built boat Cherub, for instance, by the way the fabric is all neatly aligned and smooth, the fillets are all eaxctly consistent in size, smooth and even and all the rest of it. A home built boat won't be like that, fillets may be rough, the fabric a bit wavey, all the rest of it, but provided that everything is basically in the right place it will still work. OK it will be heavier, and it will end up using loads more filler in fairing it and getting it smooth, but there's not really the same huge difference that there was between a Bloodaxe built wood Cherub and some of the ropier homebuilds which have headed for that great bonfire in the sky...

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You make it sound soooooooo simple! I'm not even taking DT next year (I'm learning how to make dresses - get me!!)
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It is very true, as with all these things practise makes perfect. Since discovering peel ply everything has become so much easier! It helped with this conversion that I had help from Mr Cunningham so he knows his stuff more than the average. Next step... new boat. That should test my building skills as long as my money making skills allow it!
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oooh get you sea falcon...
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Oi ellie I just spent ages writing a nice long PM and then it said you  were to popular and had recieved to many PM's and deleted it grrr ?!! Anyway delete some when you can and if your lucky i will type it again?!!!!

Or maybe i wont cos basically all i was saying is that yeah if you can be arsed it would be nice to get a 'cheery wave' from you and your mate on your walk past and dont forget to say bye this time he he he ! Take you both out if you want, sink the poor topper !!! is that the same mate who you took out last time?



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Holy cr*p Tim that looks pretty serious!!! 

That also means that I now have the shortest Cherub in the fleet...mine turned out to be a fair few inches under 12' too.

Less wetted area, that's what I say!!!



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here are some of the "building" pics too..... its not going on the cherub site it's going into the mag.
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Looks good Tim. Peel ply is indeed the answer to so many questions of a gluey nature.

 
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is it me or is that stem not straight? I hope your not trying to make it into
a 13ft skiff!
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i can assure you that it is 3698mm long as we measured it enough times as we went along! would have liked to have had those extra 2mm but i was a bit fed up of sanding by 3am to be bothered to add another bit of bog before laminating!
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