Diary

Keel was a plasma cut from 16 mm steel plate for the fin and 10 mm plate for the top plate. Welded by my friend [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Planking was a time consuming job, and I got my friend to help me with that. We started with side panels from astern. It was [...]

When all the frames into their positions, I fitted the bunk sides, and cockpit sides, to see if distances between the frames were correct Then [...]

All the frames are done, so I can dismantle the table, and finish my jig. Before that, I took advantage of the free space, and [...]

To make the stern took me about 19 hours, the most of time was taken by thinking of the process and consultations with [...]

After 4 months of waiting finally I got my delivery of materials. Unfortunately transport company have forgotten about one important pack of timber lengths [...]