Havn't posted for a long time. First the process of sanding, fairing, glassing will not bring many presentable pics cause you won't see much of progress from far. Second writing into my PC is not my favourite.
But nevertheless there are a few things to report:
During our summer holidays at the baltic we saw the Hansekogge "Wisemara" passing by. (http://www.poeler-kogge.de/)
Unfortunately I had only my mobile with me - sorry for the quality of the photo.
My son varnished his spars and started sewing sails
I attached stem and stern using epoxy and 8'' long stainless steel screws
After glassing and sanding we came to the next interesting part of the job. I have been building upstairs until now. My carpenter-friend has been very patient with me but he needs the space now. Second the height of the room was not enough to turn the hull there so I had to move it.
Last weekend I rented a "telescope fork-lifter", asked several friends and went for the adventure.
We used the fork-lifter like crane with help of my rock-climbing equipment and got the hull down without damage. Just my strongback (rubbish-made) was obviously not strong enough for this kind of force and fell apart. Saved a bit time of demounting.
I expected the hull beeing about 300 kg (something like 600 lbs) but turning it over was easily made by 4 of us without any effort. Now it is sitting on it's trailer, waiting for the new home..






