The Building Process
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The pieces are coming together, more or less as planned. Easy to get in a hurry but epoxy takes 24 hours to dry which tends to limit what can be accomplished in an evening after work.
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The breasthook glued in place and the quarterknees are installed, next is fitting the inwale. |
Applied two coats of varnish to the inside before glueing in the inwale, easier to coat between the spacer blocks on the gunwales. |
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The seat frames are cut from poplar and oak, not the best wood to use but the price was right, and assembled using dowelled joints and epoxy. Marked and drilled the mounting holes through the seat frames and seat supports. |
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Purchased some 1/4" brass all-thread with nuts and washers to attach the outer stem. Redrilled the holes to size and fitted the pieces together. Not much room left for shaping the outer stem, I don't think I'll make the 1/4" wide cutwater the plans call for. |
Close-up showing seat frame and joint. |
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Seat frames clamped in position and mounting holes marked using a sharpened nail as center punch. |
Drill angle and hole position determined with piece of scrap ply cut to size and held against frame and inwale. |
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Alignment and marking the center and bow seat frames required a ladder. Notice that the #5 mould is positioned to provide the correct width at the gunwales. |
These might work! |
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After the seat frames were marked and drilled, the boat was turned over and moved onto saw horses to lower and make it easier to reach, in preparation for glassing the bottom. |
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The cloth was laid out and trimmed to size. |
First coat completed and drying. Time to cut out and fit the keel. |
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These will be used to hold the 1/4" X 3/4" oak strip to the keel bottom while the epoxy dries. |
The keel is in position for purposes of fitting the oak strip. When the epoxy dries, the keel will be removed from the boat, the nails pulled out, and the keel shaped. |
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The pieces to construct the oars have been cut out and the outside top plank got a coat of varnish. The keel will be ready for installation and the glass cloth gets another coat of epoxy. Should be ready for paint soon! |
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