Saturday, 1 January 2011

Making and shaping a new Irwin 54 rudder on New Years Day 2011


We started gluing two days back,the epoxy cure time controls progress.

The days are ticking,the ARC Round the World Rally departs from HBYC club waters on January 8th,thats just seven days from tomorrow!


Ensuring a perfect fit has been important.


The depth of the two halves meant they had to be fully milled to shape by Nigel of Digicut,I then freed the small groove off with a selection of hand tools,some quite new,some very old but perfect for the job.


This was the laminated blank before I started the hand plane works.


After belt sanding,we are at the stage when we can apply biaxial glass cloth and epoxy.

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