Restoring Jouët Caprice 75

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Thursday 2 September 2010

5-year old's view of ASM Club de Voile

By Ryan on Thursday 2 September 2010, 21:46



When I downloaded the photos from my camera recently, I found a batch of pictures that I do not remember having taken.

It looks like I had a little helper :)

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Sunday 29 August 2010

Definitively a Jouët Caprice

By Ryan on Sunday 29 August 2010, 20:36 - Construction

Jouët Caprice 75 RoofThis weekend I had hoped to be able to gelcoat the roof, however that was a bit optimistic. I will need one more weekend for that. Besides, the weather was not good enough.

The hatch frame took nearly all of sunday to work on, and is what shook up the schedule.

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Wednesday 25 August 2010

Sf-composites : mon fournisseur de matériaux composites de choix

By Ryan on Wednesday 25 August 2010, 11:31

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La quasi-totalité des matériaux composites utilisé pour restaurer mon voiler en polyester, un 1971 Jouët Caprice, ont été acheté en ligne chez une société française qui s'appelle SF Composites (http://www.sf-composites.com) , et c'est pour des bonne raisons.

Avant de commencer le projet, j'ai fait des petits achats sur plusieurs magasins en ligne pour les tester, mais ça fait maintenant presque un an que je continue à acheter chez sf-composites.com. Voici pourquoi.

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Saturday 21 August 2010

Teak floor decking for the cabin

By Ryan on Saturday 21 August 2010, 20:26 - Construction

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My father has generously offered to make the new cabin floorboards out of teak.

Here is the first of his series of posts involving working with this material, and trying different construction methods.

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Hull painting design

By Ryan on Saturday 21 August 2010, 10:59 - Construction

I have changed my mind on the hull colors. I will be going with a red base (not green). Here are some Gimp'ed images of Nightwatch where I try different color schemes.

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Friday 20 August 2010

Sanding, hardware positioning, and rudder removal

By Ryan on Friday 20 August 2010, 21:28 - Construction

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I just came back from a three-day work extravaganza.
On the list of chores: prepping the roof for gelcoat/painting as the case may be, removal of the rudder, fitting of some hardware, and construction of the cabin roof area.

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Sunday 15 August 2010

Saving the wooden toe rails

By Ryan on Sunday 15 August 2010, 12:32 - Démontage



It's raining. Again. And so it seems that I have to sit and twiddle my thumbs during my summer vacation. Oh well - I have some wood to sand.

So I started sanding the wooden toe rails, to see what condition they are in.

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