26 August 2024
BiBi is currently cruising down the Iberian coast. You may see him on AIS at marinetraffic.com or vesselFinder.com In search box put: BIBI OF CORK [...]
22 August 2024
SV Bibi arrived to Spain, at anchor in Carino until Saturday.
Rudder & Skeg
Rudder was done by laminating together four layers of 9 mm okume plys. Then shaped and laminated with 600g/sqm matt Skeg was quite difficult to [...]
Inside the shell
Sanding. Again!!! It took 5 full days, tons of sanding paper and gallons of sweat to get it sanded in every tiny corner, to prepare [...]
Hull rolling over
Finally came the time to roll her over. I had built two strong frames to use them like a cranes and prepared two chairs, formed [...]
Laminating
For laminating I had asked for help from professional boat builder Piotr Czarniecki , who built the 5.80 prototype “Trekka” Hull 01 and constantly provides [...]
