Monkey Rebuild

 Time has passed by….didn’t make the nationals this year and had to bail from the worlds later this year. Unfortunately the worlds are now cancelled.

On a more positive note Monkey is now nearly finished… spraying in a couple of weeks

A somewhat random selection of build photos below…

Setting up the chain plates 

Bonding in the stump.

I think this was just about finished pre aft deck going down

Aft deck laminated , dry fitting the fore deck

 Goose neck decisions…. Two different off sets, I went for the shorter of the two

Jib track support bonded and tabbed on


Laminating the fore deck upper skin. The lower skin was done in a second operation.

Bonding on the aft deck. The batterns were there to ensure the edges were straight

  
I faired the hull in with an epoxy and ballon mix, sanded, then epoxy primed. 

I like the seldon horn cleats for the dyneema halyards but didn’t like the price so thought I would make my own, effectively paying about 3 times the price in time but it’s a nice thing to do (if they work ok).


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