back to it!

hey all, i'm back to business.

spent about an hour or two figuring out if i actually had everything up here, and what i should be doing next. had a long talk with my dad about stuff and decided to start fitting everything to the bottom of the hull. velcro for most of the servos and screws and nuts for the pump and b.switch.

the current plan is to do a system test each day if possible from here till the finish line. tomorrow's is to test the entire drive system. no top deck, no pump(s), just the drive. it should work and not leak (since the minor leak via the rudder shaft will be fixed by some grease i'm getting tomorrow).

i'm pretty rusty but i'm getting back in to it.

subdeck assembly

For the first day working on the new boat, I set to work on the subdeck. this is the part that the main deck rests on in the boat. the subdeck will be glued in place so the main deck can be put in and out easily.

basically building the subdeck entailed fitting the main deck with a trim all the way around that matched the contour of the inside of the hull. that way i could snugly place the assembly in the hull for glueing. the cutting of the pieces was a breeze but the matching took hours of sanding!

since i was only temporarily laying the subdeck on the main deck, i hardly glued it together and so had no stability or strength with which to sand against. while sanding the subdeck to fit the hull, i constantly dislodged the pieces and had to reglue them. what started out as a nice relaxing hour of sanding turned into a very thought intensive process. i had to visualize (without seeing) what parts must be hitting eachother and then remember where in order to go sand that area. but i had no clues except that the overall assembly didn't fit. from the picture you can see sort of what i went through, theres no line of sight to the subdeck or where it was too large to fit in the hull. it was almost a guess and check sort of deal.



believe it or not, building the subdeck took the WHOLE DAY! tomorrow i'll start spec'ing out the placement of the stuffing tubes, rudder, etc.

And so it begins

Well, i went ahead and bought a hull! butterflies fluttering up and down my back, i pressed the "pay" button and that was that. i was buying a hull.

and you know what? its a kick ass hull! i don't have any buyer's remorse yet. which is extremely exciting!

tomorrow i'll get up and get to work.

heres a shot of the hull next to the subskate prototype