Luigi joins his main hull

The other Italian builder Luigi sent me a photo update that I'm happy to share here:

He is building the aft cockpit, cuddy cabin, daggerboard version. His workshop is ... huge ! Lucky guy, the winter can't stop him.

He said the joining wasn't so easy ... he'll tell me everything when we'll meet in person in the near future. I just want to laminate some bulkhead by myself before, to compare with his ones.


Can you imagine the water flowing effortlessly around this harmonious hull ? There is something musical in this photo, I don't know ...

And here is a detail of the joint. Each time I congratulate Luigi on his high building speed (he started this spring !), he says he's following a different route from what he saw on the blogs; so while the main hull is joined (no other blogger reached this point, apart Oliver) the floats aren't finished, yet. He prefers to work in parallel on several sub project: while the resin cures in one place, he's working elsewhere. As I said his workshop is a wonderful playspace !

My first materials batch should arrive today but I saw nothing. Maybe it's the "holyday bridge" here in Italy ... Just phoned to courier: next week ... OK.

To Edward: many thanks for your effort in setting up a specific F-22 builders' forum ! I think it will be complementary, additional to our individual blogs and will improve communication among people. Ian THE Designer should be happy: this blogs community and forum is a modern and powerful marketing machine, besides being an immaterial tool for us builders (and potential ones), IMHO.


Fair winds to all ! (and windy fairing, for those without a boat in the water ;-)