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GEOFF’S IC BUILD, AN AUSSIE MAAS 5

Building a carbon & foam International Canoe

This is my photo blog for the Maas 5, designed by Chris Mass

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January 22-splash time

Rigged & ready to go, borrowed Josie Plank & Carriage, vang & M Cunningham jury rigged for the moment which probably is how it will stay...

December

Mast in, sails up & all the things I have been leaving just about done ready for splash time shortly

August-November

Not a lot happened, distracted with other projects & sailing. Completed the fit out/launching cradle & got ready to stand the rig.

July - foils/rudder box & carriage

Though I did some work in July on these a lot of work was done progressively over the last 16 months Foils I bought in to use the moulds...

May June & July

Just another coat of paint…….X 10 or so. Was not happy with the prep work on the hull when she went to Batemans Bay so I put in quite a...

April 2021-Demould the Hull

Game on, demoulded the hull in between guests & relocated it to the shipping container that serves as a shed at home. Tabbed the...

Nov 2020 Hull skins in

I pressed the hull skins in with the help of Newton Clamps & timber ontop of the sheerline of the topside panels with both Newton &...

Oct 2020 Bow down.. kind of

Started again, I haven’t been able to get access to the build as things went crazy post lockdown for holiday rentals. Bow male mould,...

Late Mar 2020 building the female jig

the jig needs to be split to remove the hull, hence the reason they are cut in port/starboard, so I joined them with a fisher plate &...

March 2020 preparation

I got a few materials in & built a flat build table levelled with a spinning laser in the middle & a lamination table to lay up the hull...

Feb 2020 the Design & CNC work

It began with a design from Chris Maas Some file tweaks from Geoff Harman & a bit of CNC cutting end of March 2020 by Justin Preistly...

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