A Year in the Workshop

|Peter Johnson
A year in the workshop

A quick update on the schooner build after a year in the workshop — from finishing the hull's exterior to fixing a roof that nearly fell in on us.

Progress on the hull

Over the past year we've moved the schooner build forward significantly, and we're now doing the final prep work ahead of turning the hull in the new year. That's meant finishing the outside of the hull: laying on several layers of biaxial cloth, a finishing coat, and some undercoat filler on the topsides.

Watch the progress

Watch a year of progress on the schooner build.

The work you don't see

As with any project like this, the progress that's visible on the boat represents only a fraction of the work — most days go into prep that no one will ever notice once it's covered up. Alongside the boat, we also had to replace the workshop roof timbers, which had failed after years of old age and a previous woodworm infestation.
Peter Johnson

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Peter Johnson

Pete Johnson is the owner of Epoxy Ltd, trading since the late 1990s and supplying MAS epoxy and boatbuilding materials to professional and DIY builders alike, all under the philosophy of "Simple Perfection". When he's not helping customers, he's usually elbow-deep in one of his own projects, from building the 38ft schooner Iracunda from scratch to restoring boats like Junior, a 1950s Yachting Monthly dinghy rescued from the scrap heap. He writes the workshop blog to share the practical, often hard-won lessons learned building and repairing boats with epoxy.