The Pigging Canoes & Stupid Idea

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I vaguelly remember the record for the most number of people in a telephone box was 17?
I think the same people were trying to see how many they could get into Tescos.
I only wanted a lego car, a bionicle and some cheese...
...an hour later....

Monday.

 

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Headed off to Bournemouth for that mug.
The traffic stopped on the way for half an hour until an ambulance, a fire engine and a police car wailed past.
Someone else was having a Monday too.

Found the shop, they only had the kidney shaped cups.
Grr....
Ended up with a pair of patrol boots, a couple of those mugs to see if I can hammer them round, a response bag, which I suppose I aught to give to my sugar puff king, and some waterproof matches.
I didnt actually get what I wanted.

The police and several drunks seemed to be having some sort of running argument and slid along the side of my car, scraping off some mud and somehow making it actually look dirtier.

Frightended the life out of my kids though.

Monday.

 

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Forgot to stop at the shop that sells rubber pipe on the way home, so I need to do that tomorrow.

Got home and realised Ive now run out of Gas...
Havent got a prezzie for swmba...
I had a can of Quality street on the kitchen table....

Monday.

 

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Oh well....

Gas, dinner, destroy some more pipe, then....

back to the Pigging Canoes and Stupid Idea...

Normal service will resume as soon as we run out of ...

Monday.

 

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Just discovered the kids managed to drop the cheese on the kitchen floor and the outboard just leaked petrol mix over it.

Monday continues....

 

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...I got a box of eggs, 9.6m of tongue and groove,

..oh and 2 kebabs

BUT NO PIGGING GAS !

Still Monday.

 

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Anyhow....

A few days later I had another two hours.....

I was running out of summer, and needed to get on with it.

I started by undoing the lorry strop.

I expected the wood to stay bent.

Had I known, I would have made sure my groin was out of the way.

...a coffee later.....

 

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While I was hunting for more stripping, I found these safety glasses.

They have 3x mag on the bottom bits.

I acn actually see where Im cutting with them on!

 

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I stripped the cable ties off the nose as I decided I didnt like its shape

 

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I made the bow rise a little more by opening up the slot a bit more.

The grinder actually has a wood cutting disk on it.

 

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Now to reshape the sides...

Im laying one side on top of the other side so I can make sure both get cut to the same angle as I havent measured it.

Cutting it with the skil saw.

My expert photographer..

 

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I am drilling a line of holes along the nose so I can cable tie it back together again..

These things keep snapping.

 

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This is the new stripping I found to replace the one that split.

Its not very good quality, but then Im not designing this boat to last very long.

Lining it up ready to start.

First screw in...

Im lining it up and getting biggest to keep it bent to shape while I fix it with the screws.

This is harder than it looks

Another screw

and another...

The secret is to keep it bent and lined up while the scews go in.

 

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It went on, so now Im taking it off again.

Waterproof contact adhesive...

This stuff expands as it cures...

This stripping is made up of two layers, so Im gluing them both together and on at the same time.

Now gluing it to the hull

I made a bad blunder with this stuff, I really didnt realise just how hard this stuff would be to get off my skin. It took about a week to get it all off.

I use latex gloves when I remember with fibreglass, but they just fall apart when this stuff gets on them.

 

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I keep a pot of johnsons baby powder next to me when playing with anything sticky - especially fibreglass

This stuff just uses it as more volume.

Although this stuff is now prebent and drilled, its still a fight to get it on.

Now Im screwing the two strips together.

 

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I cant join them until after they have bent, or I wouldnt be able to bend them without the outer one snapping.

Again, hes keeping it in place so all I have to do is get covered in glue and screw it together.

I got the bad end of that job.

I am now hammering the point of the screws Im using so they wont crack and split the strips as they go in

Its blunt!

You can see the glue expanding out of the joints in the background

Getting there...

 

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I need to keep an eye on this to make sure it doesnt twist or do anything else bad, as the shape of its nose depends on this being right.

I cant actually check it for true, as I didnt make any plans and have nothing to measure it against.

The clamp is holding the two strips together while I set the screws in place

 

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Im just nicking the end off the strips so I can get the bulkhead in...

I did measure it....

Honest.

 

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Now the other side...

I always find it easier to make the first one than to copy it accurately.

Im happy with it though

Rose just cut my ear !

 

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Im grinding the ply flat to the strip.

Now the other side...