Table of Contents

2003-07-28:    Enthusiasm
2003-07-27:    In the beginning….
2003-07-29:    Humidity
2003-08-01:    A beaut bloke
2003-08-09:    Officially committed
2003-09-16:    Site preparation
2003-09-17:    Do we drive to Airlie Beach?
2003-10-10:    Anticipation…
2003-10-13:    Shed floor
2003-10-13:    Builder’s Risk Insurance
2003-10-14:    Dispatched
2003-10-16:    Paving of shed floor completed
2003-10-18:    Shed roof
2003-10-18:    Minimalism
2003-09-21:    Preparing Site
2003-09-24:    ATL Composites – Order
2003-10-23:    Boat in a box
2003-10-31:    Shed roof problem
2003-11-04:    Shed design
2003-11-05:    Z-Press collection
2003-11-07:    Airlie Beach
2003-11-08:    Halcyon
2003-11-12:    Adventures of a z-press
2003-11-13:    No time to be idle
2003-11-19:    Boat building apprenticeship
2003-11-20:    Z-Pressing
2003-11-29:    Airconditioned shed!
2003-12-01:    Wet layups
2003-10-22:    Delivery – Composite Boat Building Kit and Materials
2003-11-11:    The Shed
2003-11-17:    Pressing and Cutting Panels
2003-12-12:    Fillets
2003-12-13:    Cake Icing?
2003-12-14:    Outahia
2003-12-01:    The Work Area
2003-11-19:    Starting the Starboard Hull
2003-12-19:    Cyclone threat
2003-12-20:    Cyclone preparation
2003-12-21:    Very wet….
2003-12-23:    Ex-tropical cyclone Debbie
2004-01-19:    Starboard bulkheads
2004-01-23:    Part-time boat builder
2004-01-26:    With a little help from my friends…
2004-01-31:    Injury!
2004-02-14:    Hull Rollover Soon
2004-02-15:    Starboard Hull Turning
2004-02-28:    Binary’s length
2004-03-23:    Shed too low
2004-04-16:    Toilets
2004-04-26:    Raising the shed roof
2004-05-03:    Setback
2004-05-05:    Tenders
2004-03-20:    Taping outside starboard hull
2004-03-21:    Moving port hull panels
2004-04-17:    Marking sacrificial keel
2004-07-31:    Starboard keel and bow
2004-10-28:    What happened to the project?
2004-10-30:    First storm for season
2004-10-31:    Dipped in chocolate
2004-11-07:    Finally – One Hull Shell!
2004-11-08:    You should work on the boat everyday…
2004-11-25:    Storm Damage to Our Boat Shed
2004-11-29:    Repairing and Raising the Boat Shed Roof… Again
2004-11-20:    Port Hull – Preparation
2004-12-03:    Port Hull – Bilge Panels
2004-12-09:    How to Fit a Bloody Big Sheer Panel Alone
2004-11-21:    Port Hull – Laying the Keel Panel
2004-12-07:    Port Hull – Joining Hull Panels: Fillets, Wet Layup of Glass Tapes, Peel Ply
2004-12-08:    Now we have a 13.5 metre canoe
2005-01-06:    New Year Resolution No 1 – Build some more boat!
2004-12-10:    Nocturnal Catamaran Building
2004-12-17:    Funny who you bump into whilst on holidays…
2005-01-11:    Port Hull – Chamfer and Bridgedeck Panels
2005-01-15:    The Hull – Swim Platform Join
2005-01-16:    Tarp City
2005-01-23:    Port Hull – Bulkheads
2005-01-26:    Port Forebeam Bulkhead
2005-02-12:    Port Horizontal Support Bulkhead
2005-02-13:    Tools used to build Binary
2005-02-14:    Peel Ply
2005-02-20:    Port Sail Locker Bulkhead
2005-02-21:    Port Front Structural Bulkhead
2005-02-24:    Port Chainplate Bulkhead
2005-02-27:    Turning the Port Hull Upsidedown
2005-03-14:    Last week an earthquake, now a cyclone!
2005-03-14:    Checking for any weather damage
2005-03-17:    Post Cyclone Ingrid
2005-03-21:    Why we can’t stay with the boat during a cyclone…
2005-03-28:    The project is back on course
2005-05-02:    Peel Ply Removal Port Hull Underside
2005-05-10:    Preparing Concave Joins Port Hull Underside
2005-05-14:    Concave Joins Port Hull Underside
2005-05-22:    Bilge Exterior Fillets Port Hull
2005-05-24:    Sanding Bilge Exterior Fillets Port Hull
2005-06-12:    Finished Fillets External Bilge & Keel Port Hull
2005-06-13:    Reinforcing Tapes to the External Bilge & Keel Port Hull
2005-06-20:    Sacrificial Keel Port Hull
2005-07-09:    A Different Sailing Rig for Binary
2005-06-26:    If I had a boat I should have gone sailing
2005-07-02:    Creating the Fine Bow on the Port Hull
2005-09-13:    More of the Sacrificial Keel Port Hull
2005-10-03:    Finishing the Port Hull Sacrificial Keel and Bow
2005-10-10:    Biaxial Glass Over Port Keel
2005-11-13:    The Least Inspiring Aspect of Boat Building
2005-10-29:    Good excuse for not working on the boat today
2005-11-27:    More Fairing Compound
2005-12-12:    Fairing the Port Hull
2006-01-16:    Boat Fairing Methods and Tools
2006-02-04:    Copper Antifouling On Port Hull
2006-03-27:    Bridgedeck Support Beams
2006-04-15:    Our Catamaran Forebeam Stored Under House
2006-04-15:    Preparing to fit the Bridgedeck Beam
2006-04-16:    Duflex – Chine Join – Section Cut Away
2006-04-23:    Guess What We’re Doing At The Moment
2006-04-25:    Yet Another Cyclone – Severe Tropical Cyclone Monica
2006-05-10:    Pretty Maids All In A Row
2006-05-21:    Preparing the Starboard Bridgedeck Beam
2006-05-20:    Arrival of Nomen Cleats
2006-06-13:    Attaching the Starboard Bridgedeck Beam
2006-06-14:    Sealing Port Bridgedeck Underside
2006-06-14:    Final Hull Turning – Port Hull Upright
2006-07-06:    Aligning Binary Bridgedeck Halves For Joining
2006-07-17:    Preparing to Tape the Bridgedeck Join
2006-07-11:    Annual Oram Structural Inspection
2006-07-17:    Taping the Bridgedeck and Structural Beams
2006-07-22:    Video of Z-Pressing and Cutting Out Panels
2006-07-23:    We Now Have A Boat
2006-08-13:    Stern Beam
2006-08-15:    Stern Beam Preparation
2006-08-20:    Reinforced Cut-outs
2006-08-20:    My Version of a ‘Z Join”
2006-09-03:    Rear Lower Unidirectional Flange
2006-09-18:    Taping The Back Web
2006-09-30:    Aurora Binary
2006-09-30:    Annual Pre Wet Season Shed Rebuild
2006-10-01:    Making the Rudder Bulkheads
2006-10-01:    Why Tom Is Sobbing In The Corner
2006-11-08:    Colourful water tanks for Binary
2007-01-14:    Carbon masts for Binary
2007-01-22:    Binary’s First Repair
2007-01-25:    Chamfer Panels/SternBeam
2007-02-12:    Email from Alan – No 2
2007-02-12:    Email from Alan – No 1.
2007-02-24:    Rope work
2007-03-26:    Main Beam Lower Flange
2007-03-27:    Video of Main Beam Lower Flange
2007-04-07:    Joining the main beam halves
2007-04-08:    The Drunken Doorways
2007-04-10:    Reinforcing Cutouts – Step 1
2007-04-13:    Glass Ropes – Reinforcing Cutouts – Step 2
2007-04-16:    Video of Reinforcing Cutouts – Step 3 Taping
2007-04-16:    Video – Main Beam goes to the Boat
2007-05-04:    Main Beam Fitted
2007-07-27:    Main Beam Taping
2007-07-27:    Carbon Masts – Update 1
2007-08-25:    Front Cockpit Dreaming
2007-08-25:    Rudder Cassette Cutout
2007-08-26:    Forward Tape – Forebeam Bulkhead
2008-07-18:    Fitting the head bulkheads – again
2007-08-26:    Head Bulkheads – Remove and Reshape
2007-08-26:    Stem Bulkhead to Bow
2007-08-26:    Rear Beam – forward edge tape
2007-08-26:    Bridge deck leading edge – support for kerfing
2007-08-27:    Rear Beam Gusset
2007-09-11:    Beetles and Epoxy (Sub Locker Bulkhead)
2008-02-04:    Homebuilt CVI Workstation holding @ -98.5KPa
2008-01-03:    Carbon Mast – Update 2
2008-01-06:    Tropical Cyclone Helen
2008-02-11:    Controlled Vacuum Infusion
2008-07-06:    Bridge deck leading edge
2008-07-07:    Forward Buoyancy Compartments 1
2008-07-14:    Closing Voids – Buoyancy Compartments 2
2008-07-18:    Forward mixing and wet out area
2008-07-24:    Completed void ledge used as template
2008-07-26:    Auxilliary Propulsion
2008-07-30:    The sail lockers have soles
2008-07-30:    ….and the boatbuilder has soles
2008-08-07:    Top Bow Chamfer Panels, Designers and Builders
2008-08-14:    Bridgedeck Leading Edge
2008-08-16:    Reinforcing the kerfed leading edge
2008-09-07:    Preparing the Fore Beam
2008-09-07:    Presenting the Fore Beam
2008-09-07:    Stress testing the presented fore beam
2008-11-16:    Mooring Cleats
2008-09-28:    “Just lay some uni over it and tape the rest”
2008-09-28:    The fit of the fore beam
2008-09-29:    Beam insert panel on the top bow chamfer panels
2008-10-02:    Fore Beam Installed
2008-10-10:    More Z joins as 5 years comes around
2008-10-28:    Sail Locker Access Hatch Template
2008-11-02:    Sail Locker Access Hatch Cutouts
2008-11-07:    A Grapple of Anchors
2008-11-09:    The Hound and the Hatches
2008-11-16:    Forward Cleat Blocking
2008-11-15:    Marinising the Waecos
2008-11-16:    Deck reinforcement for cleat mounting
2008-11-17:    Forward cleat blocking – installation
2008-11-19:    Hatching – slowly
2009-02-09:    Vacuum Bag Sealing Idea
2008-11-28:    Bits of duflex to make a hatch or two
2008-11-27:    More boat in a box
2008-11-29:    Steering Unboxed
2008-11-30:    Still Hatching
2009-02-05:    Tread and Shelf
2008-12-29:    A lot of photos of those bloody hatches
2008-12-28:    Engines in boxes
2008-12-31:    Hatch Infusion Layup
2008-12-31:    Infusing the Access Hatches
2009-02-11:    Composite Pad-Eyes
2009-02-08:    Hatches – only seals and external paint to complete
2009-02-12:    Fiddly Bits
2009-02-14:    The Painter
2009-03-03:    Draft plumbing design for Binary’s Lavac toilet
2009-03-08:    Vacuum Infusion – details of our typical layup
2009-03-08:    Jotun Imperite 300 and International Intergrip
2009-03-08:    Coping with heat and humidity
2009-03-15:    Front lockers finally finished
2009-03-21:    More about our copper + epoxy antifouling
2009-03-24:    Even bigger hatches
2009-03-25:    Latch and hinge reinforcement
2009-04-19:    Flange on the Mast Beam
2009-04-21:    What goes in must come out
2009-05-09:    No strip-planking on this boat
2009-05-11:    Back yard windows
2009-05-12:    So far with the even bigger hatches (engine access)
2009-05-14:    Crocodile-proof foredeck access
2009-05-17:    We are tired of climbing over the rear beam
2009-05-17:    Is this normal?
2009-05-19:    Now we can walk into the rear cockpit
2009-05-20:    Last task for the day
2009-05-25:    Aft bunk supports
2009-05-26:    Stairway beams
2009-05-28:    Overheads for the rear berths
2009-05-31:    Aft central cleats
2009-05-31:    Obverse, converse and reverse
2009-06-02:    Bonding the aluminium backing plates for cleats
2009-06-03:    Now the kids can visualise their bedrooms
2009-06-16:    Aft cabin in bandages
2009-06-17:    The back cabin bulkhead (BCB) offered up
2009-06-18:    Two for one furniture
2009-06-20:    The wayward router and the cabin furniture
2009-06-23:    Lift, Glue, Screw and Clamp
2009-06-24:    Shoulder Exercise
2009-06-26:    Roundovers and Roundovers
2009-06-27:    Convex in the cockpit and concave in the beam
2009-07-01:    Ventilation and light
2009-07-06:    Reinforcing the rear ventilation
2009-07-27:    Ten (feeble) excuses
2009-08-22:    Dutch Door Basics
2009-08-19:    The BCB Saga
2009-08-20:    The BCB Cut-outs
2009-08-21:    Catwalk Beam Tops
2009-08-23:    Extending the short door
2009-08-25:    Door Making
2009-08-29:    The Second Wall
2009-08-30:    Reinforcing for Door Furniture
2009-08-30:    Trial Door Fitting
2009-08-31:    The BCB changes the shape of Binary
2009-09-20:    Left hand $100 jigsaw, right hand $600 camera
2009-09-27:    The catwalk beams are in
2009-09-28:    H joins for the deck panels
2009-10-01:    Water tank hatch basics
2009-10-03:    Water Tank Hatch Doublers
2009-09-30:    Head and Laundry Hatches
2009-10-02:    Better core replacement
2009-10-03:    Almost finished the water tank hatches
2009-10-22:    Sealing and painting under the foredeck panels
2009-12-01:    Glue, glue everywhere and little on the job
2009-10-23:    Straps, holes and tie-downs
2009-10-25:    Water tank bulkheads and paint
2009-10-29:    Anchor system basics
2009-11-28:    Anchor Locker
2009-11-29:    Plumbing through bulkheads
2009-11-29:    The almost ready deck panels
2009-12-03:    The fore decks are on
2009-12-04:    Occupational Health and Safety Inspection
2009-12-13:    Deck and companionway side panels
2009-12-23:    Drivelines for Christmas
2009-12-25:    Emperor Penguins and Christmas
2010-01-26:    Why are my conduit holes through the stern beam asymmetric?
2010-02-03:    Shed
2010-03-11:    Goin’ down the track
2010-05-16:    We’re back blogging
2010-05-16:    Stringer extensions within the aft beam
2010-05-17:    Aft beam conduits
2010-05-17:    Aft beam bulkheads
2010-05-18:    Upper flange on the aft beam
2010-05-19:    Top of the aft beam
2010-05-20:    Don’t Ditch The Duflex
2010-05-23:    No cranes required to move this boat
2010-07-23:    The Move
2010-07-23:    Binary in the Shed
2010-07-23:    Companionway risers
2010-07-23:    Companionway step reinforcement
2010-07-23:    Companionway steps
2010-07-23:    Quick visit to HCMC
2010-07-23:    Whats happened to the BCB?
2010-07-24:    Roof Panels
2010-09-24:    Bridge Deck Cabin, Saloon, Coach House, Turret, Pilot House
2010-09-26:    The Third Roof Panel
2010-09-27:    Cabin Side Walls
2010-09-28:    Trimming the forward roof overhang
2010-10-10:    Prefabricating the front cabin walls
2010-10-11:    Cutting and shaping panels
2010-10-14:    Short tapes
2010-10-24:    All Walls In
2010-11-18:    Preparing for the wet
2011-01-02:    2010 in review
2011-03-11:    Four month hiatus
2011-03-11:    Project cost
2011-03-24:    Fresh water distribution
2011-03-28:    Downloadable files have been updated
2011-03-31:    A better head design for Binary
2011-04-13:    The most complicated schematic yet
2011-04-14:    Adaptive Charging
2011-05-02:    Why don’t all bridgedeck catamarans have a front door?
2011-05-27:    The front cockpit – port side wall
2011-05-27:    The front cockpit – starboard side wall
2011-05-27:    The front cockpit – back wall
2011-05-27:    Glass bars
2011-06-08:    The front cockpit – preparing the floor
2011-06-08:    The front cockpit – quadraxial suspension
2011-06-08:    The front cockpit – floor drain
2011-06-08:    The front cockpit – the floor doubler
2011-06-08:    The shaft to gearbox coupling problem solved
2011-06-15:    Composite chainplates
2011-08-16:    Catwalk beam flanges
2011-08-17:    Fastening the catwalk
2011-08-17:    Anchor rollers and Meccano sets
2011-08-17:    Wrapping the forebeam
2011-08-17:    Forestay chainplate – preparing the stand
2011-08-17:    Forestay chainplate – the glass wraps
2011-08-22:    Baby stay chainplate – preparing the stand
2011-08-22:    Baby stay chainplate – the glass wraps
2011-08-22:    Frames for the trampolines
2011-08-24:    Anchor chain alignment
2011-08-24:    Robust Simplicity and the Art of Motor Sailing
2011-09-13:    The chain way – eight holes
2011-09-13:    The chain way – chainplate bulkhead
2011-09-13:    The chain way – encasing the baby stay chainplate
2011-09-21:    Drawing a large curved line
2011-09-21:    The evolving shape of the trampoline frames
2011-09-28:    Taping the trampoline frames
2011-09-28:    Trampoline frames – core replacement
2011-10-10:    Finishing the trampoline frame edges
2011-10-09:    Blending the bow stem into the deck
2011-10-10:    Sealing balsa edges on the catwalk
2011-10-10:    First storm of the wet season 2011-12
2011-10-11:    Installing forward anchor rollers
2011-10-14:    Work platforms, cheap tools and rounding of topdeck edges.
2011-10-16:    And another curve is added …
2011-10-28:    For (i = 1; i < smooth boat surface; i++) {bog; sand;}
2011-11-10:    A break from fairing
2011-11-09:    Bob Oram’s website
2011-11-18:    Early Christmas gift from the landlord
2011-11-23:    Pinning the roof to its support poles – Part 1
2011-12-03:    Pinning the roof to its support poles – Part 2
2011-12-04:    Securing the support poles to the back beam
2011-12-22:    A diversion: Tiny house building
2012-01-19:    Christmas Cyclone
2012-01-26:    At last, someone will transport our boat
2012-01-27:    How to load a catamaran onto a truck without a crane
2012-01-28:    The Move #2
2012-03-01:    Repositioning the boat
2012-04-20:    A wider firebreak