DIY Yachts

looks mint mate... great work

Thanks for the kind words guys... im trying for an end of month splash but im not sure ill make it, might have to wait until february as work is really busy at the moment and im not getting much time to work on the boat :evil: :evil: Matt - those hatches are 600mm cutout... and the cut out bits in t...

The interior is coming together... Just test fitting things to make sure everything is going to practically work for location and fitment etc... I also had another win with the electronics package, which i managed to find a good deal on. The stuff has never been used, still brand new in boxes, less ...

i found a solution to pinholes - right near the end of my build of course... roll on the high build epoxy and then quickly (while its still very runny, before it goes tacky) run a steel hand trowel or a rubber squeegee over the surface lightly as if your gently squeegeeing a window free from water.....

Hey Matt, they're 300 mm round deck hatches not portlights as such there is heaps of natural light inside the boat now I've got those 600 mm hatches above each forward bedroom...

Non skid on the deck completed, just the roof to go... im contemplating just finishing the roof, paint the tunnel, anitfoul and launch... but looks like i cant do anything before xmas now anyway so ill have to wait until end of jan... http://i439.photobucket.com/albums/qq120/gravitygroper/Mobile%20U...

Ok all good - thanks for your input - ill go with the milled glass fiber and epoxy edges... On another note - got the engines fitted and rigged with the help of a mate and his mini excavator, also applied the first few patches of non-skid deck paint too! productive weekend :) http://i439.photobucket...

wow - sounds like a bit of overkill there... on all of the duflex kit and sandwich boats built these days the normal practice you see is to decore about 10mm around the opening for windows/hatches/whatever large hole etc and then push in the rolled up uni. if its major structural, like a doorway in ...

I have a question for anyone building a sandwich boat... im going to start fitting some large hatches soon - 600x600mm into the deck and roof of the saloon and was wondering if the other builders out there decored and backfilled the perimeter of the opening with rolled up uni glass tape? seems to me...

Thanks matt, your boat looks amazing! Ive finished painting the inside - thank god - and have started the fitout... heres a few pics... got some LED courtesy lighting installed in the cockpit, AKA pierlite timber deck lights... http://i439.photobucket.com/albums/qq120/gravitygroper/Mobile%20Uploads/...