Index — Zip

Sure, you could scroll your way back through the whole blog and read it page-by-page. But, maybe you're just using it as a cross-reference for your own boatbuilding project. Wouldn't it be great to have an index relevant to only the phases of building a Glen-L Zip? Something like a...

Table of Contents

Introduction

• The Beginning
• Fitting the Utility's port side planking — and a little more progress on the Zip

The Stem

• Working on the Zip
• Zip stem construction
• The Zip takes one step closer to reality
• Revisiting the stem
• Primer and coffee

Frame 5-1/2

• Drawing out the next major Zip part
• Life goes on
• New Year. New Promise.
• Grey Area

The Transom

• Utility and Zip updates: Varnish & Mahogany
• Slow but steady progress on the Zip transom
• Completing the transom frame on the Zip
• Of Transom Sanding and Morning Coffee
• More transom sanding. More coffee.
• Cutting beveled notches in the transom

Frame 4

• The Slow Saga of Zip Frame #4 — part one
• The Slow Saga of Zip Frame #4 — part two
• The Slow Saga of Zip Frame #4 — part three
• The Slow Saga of Zip Frame #4 — part four
• The Slow Saga of Zip Frame #4 — part five
• The Slow Saga of Zip Frame #4 — part six
• The Slow Saga of Zip Frame #4 — part seven
• The Slow Saga of Zip Frame #4 — part eight
• Merry Christmas
• How have I survived this long in life, without a router?
• New Years Eve 2017
• The Slow Saga of Zip Frame #4 — part nine
• The Slow Saga of Zip Frame #4 — part ten (the end)

Frame 2

• The Tedious Tale of Zip Frame #2 — part one
• The Tedious Tale of Zip Frame #2 — part two
• The Tedious Tale of Zip Frame #2 — part three
• The Tedious Tale of Zip Frame #2 — part four
• The Tedious Tale of Zip Frame #2 — part five
• The Tedious Tale of Zip Frame #2 — part six
• The Tedious Tale of Zip Frame #2 — part seven
• Frame #2 — A year later

Encapsulating Frame Parts

• Encapsulating.
• Surface prep for encapsulating
• Repeat for second coat
• Encapsulating: Make sure it's dry first.
• Denatured Alcohol
• The Slow Saga of Zip Frame #4 — part eight (epoxy problem)
• To Stain, or Not to Stain? THAT is the Question.
• Stain & Epoxy — So Far, So Good...

The Keel

• Christmas in February
• 3/4 of a keel
• Keel: Truth and Theory
• Shims for the keel

Adding the Longitudinals

• A Tour of the Construction Form
• Stem Attached
• Drilling the keel and transom knee
• Installing the keel
• Keel, End-to-End
• Cutting notches for the floor battens
• First 2 floor battens attached
• Scarf Joints, Half-Lap Joints, and Floor Battens
• Zip: Floor battens installed
• Keel progress & chine prep
• A Scarf Is Born
• Springing the chine
• Feels like the first chine...
• Starboard chine laminated
• Limbers in the battens
• Initial work on the Zip's port chine
• Quick progress on the port chine
• Dry Fit: Port Chine
• Port Chine: 1st lam glued & screwed
• Preparing the 2nd lam — port chine, Zip
• " This could be the last chine...

Fairing

• It's not fair
• How to bury yourself in wood dust
• Fairing progress
• A not-so-even keel
• Fairing progress on the starboard chine
• Big dip in the outer starboard batten
• O Shim, All Ye Faithful
• Go slowly, measure often.
• Time to take a break for Christmas
• Fairing around the Zip's stem
• Fairing the port chine
• Fairing Diary: Day 469
• Fairing Diary: Day 472
• Fairing Diary: Day 476. Contact!
• Fairing Diary: Day 480
• Fairing, Day 484: Tribulations of a Transom
• Fairing Diary, Day 488: All Saints Day
• Fairing Diary, Day 492: The Life Span of a Lowly Shim
• Fairing, Day 496: Frame #4 essentially done
• Fairing, Day 510: Port bottom slowly taking shape
• Fairing, Day 542: Slower than Christmas

Bow Eye

• Ooops... I did it again.
• A little to the right...

Miscellaneous Hardware

• Cart before the horse? Maybe. But, at least the cart has a steering wheel.
• Home made tools for home made boats