Globe Mini 5.80 Hull 113

 I didn't really get into the grinding of the shape of the keels before welding, here's a few pics. All said and done, it took about nine minutes of lasering, five hours of milling (setup and cutting) and about two hours of grinding per keel.  All ballpark numbers, but it's not off by a lot.  The milling is pretty monotonous, in that you pretty much set it up and crank handles, and it doesn't take much thought once you figure out the numbers.  The grinding is more "artistic" because it takes some feel and a fair bit of patience and a lot of paying attention to not go crazy and grind a bunch of hollows into it that you have to fix. At the end of the last update, I mentioned that the welding of the keel was next.  Well, Jim at  Danrich Welding  and his guys Jaime and Juan took care of us.  They did a fantastic job of setup and welding.  There's no possible way that I can write enough words to describe the process.  Let the pictures speak for themselves... St

 If you haven't figured it out yet, this is supposed to be a building blog.  It might occasionally be more than that.  Please understand that this doesn't mean more entertaining..  In fact, it will likely be less. Since I don't have my plywood kit or timber kit yet (I didn't order until November and I won't get them until after the first of 2021), I'm basically thrashing around finding parts by any means possible and trying to gather them into my orbit.  I've found a ST1000+ Raymarine tiller pilot and a very nice Torqueedo 1003 electric outboard, both used on Craigslist. I've purchased or put a deposit on a few other things (wind vane steering unit, hatches, class required stainless steel kit).  I'm trying to get a handle on the long lead time items before I get to building my boat in earnest.  Once I'm building, I'm sure I'll need to be concentrating on that. In the mean time,  Hull 79  and I have been working on cutting out keel parts.