My new baby! 6.8 Meter fiber over wood fishing boat !

Aye all i got are samples and the data sheet! I'm just doing calculations got some free time and cant seem to sleep lately lol

 

Is there any way to guess or estimate how many frames i need for lets say the 6.8 meter boat i posted pics off earlier. (shoteya)

As apex mentioned we will need to increase frames, not sure by how much in numbers and thickness. (providing i will do the exact same boat 6.8 x 2.4

I also wounder if they are fitting the frames together properly. Shouldn't they have a meshing shape or cut into them (lega like)? Just doesn't look like sound building practice to me

Not to mention the poor nails workmanship (very low quality iron), shouldn't they be screw nails ? copper or galvanized / stainless steal?

 

Any thoughts ?

 

Very poor craftsmanship in deed.

Frames I would guess 5x10 cm on 45cm centers, solid plywood transom.

Frames should be made like this:



A technique developed 3000 bc in Egypt......................
(although the picture shows a rectangle connection you know what I mean)

These frames are commonly supported by a triangle piece of ply both sides and glued (epoxy) only. Have forgotten the term for that stuff.

Regards
Richard

 

Plywood or metal plates on either side of a frame joint are called gussets in English.

 

Yepp, thanks Troy! I did not even remember how we call them in German........

 

it's hard to remember all those 125 letter compound nouns

 

Einsätzen

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gusset_plate

 

No it is hard to remember any term when one changes the language every other minute for several years, as I do. I sometimes (daily) are searching for some simple terms in ANY language and don´t remember one.

Hoyt,

"Knotenblech" is the right term when metal, "Lasche" when wood.........

 

In english we have a technical word to cover that, "doohicky"

 

If you mean doohickey.......... we have about 40 words for that in German. But that was not the problem.
When you switch from one to another language every other moment, and don´t speak your mothers tongue regularely, then on top of that are in a environment where you don´t like and don´t speak the native language, there comes a point where you do not even remember the word for bread in any of the languages you know...
... and not doohickey either.

 

This thread is Brot for my mind. Danke.

 

Thingamajig is fully acceptable terminology.

 

wow i go away for a quick meeting and this is what happens with out my presence !!!

LOLZ @ hoytedow

Thx @ apex & Troy

"Captin, we must repair the thingamajig because the thingy broke. The doohicky was not done properly so we are basically in trouble ..."