new boatbuilder

[sean-nós]

Hi all first post here and I am sure you guys will be able to help me along my way,I have just started on my second build its a 1954 crackerbox that I hope to run a 4.3 v6 or 5.7 v8 mercruiser in. Here are two links one of my first build "sean-nós"meaning old style and named after my dad Sean who had died just as I started to build it,and the second one is were I am with the crackerbox,not to far Hope you like.

http://s753.photobucket.com/albums/xx179/fergalbutler/
http://s753.photobucket.com/albums/x...er/crackerbox/
And this is a clip of my launch day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoP_2AERUQo

[anthony goodson]

Welcome ,good projects ,keep posting your progress.

[Ike]

Looking good. Welcome to the forum. keep us posted.

[sean-nós]

Framework is all done now just have to do the fairing off and then start planking, starting to look like a boat now.

[sean-nós]

Have a hull now, just the first skin now I have to find some 1/4 by 4" by 16' mahogany to plank it out,I was thinking of vacuum bagging the planks on but will have to look into it a bit more,or else I will use staples.

http://s753.photobucket.com/albums/x...er/crackerbox/

Nice, nice..........

Use plastic staples if you don´t bag, they are a big time saver. You can sand them flat and leave the rest in.


Regards
Richard

[hoytedow]

It is a nice looking boat.

[fredrosse]

Plastic Staples? Tell me more. I am building a plywood boat, 9oz glass and epoxy on the outside of the hull. Can these plastic staples be used to hold down the cloth during the epoxy/fiberglass work? Where do you get them?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[sean-nós]

I have been looking them up and all I can find are raptor staples but I think you have to use their gun. I don't have a compressor and not sure if the hand one will go through the mahogany and ply.

http://www.raptornails.com/tshoot.php

Originally Posted by sean-nós

I have been looking them up and all I can find are raptor staples but I think you have to use their gun. I don't have a compressor and not sure if the hand one will go through the mahogany and ply.

http://www.raptornails.com/tshoot.php

No, the hand gun will probably not shoot them into harder wood.

The link is the right one!

Fred
I am not familiar with tackered glassfibers, we apply them freehand, see my Gallery.

Regards
Richard

[hoytedow]

When working single-handed I have used a staple gun to keep the cloth from sliding off until I can get some resin on it, but then I pry out the staple before glassing that part. In a professional boatyard you may not need the staples at all if you have sufficient hands assisting.

[sean-nós]

I started striping my donor boat and have the engine ready to lift out to get a face lift, I hope to use the rudder, cables,wiring, exhaust ect. The boat I am building was a direct drive but I would like to use the gearbox to,I will have to get a longer shaft and a different strut angle,is there a rule of how far from the back of the boat the prop should be.





I also picked up my planking, this should be fun.

[sean-nós]

Started planking the transom,had the first plank and the transom coated with resin and before it set I epoxy with west system 405 filler mixed with 423 graphite to give me the black lines, the chalking on the deck will be black too so I hope it will look ok. As you can see on the first plank I put on my stapler packed up so I had to screw it on, I filled the holes with resin mixed with sawdust so hope it will be ok. I could not get my hands on the plastic staples like apex1 said so I just used 14mm ones shot through a car seatbelt to make it easy to pull out.

[sean-nós]

I started striping the engine for it's rebuild and when I saw this my heart sank


And then when I saw this it hit the floor, "always winterise your engine"

[sean-nós]

The hull is now planked and the engine is rebuilt and sitting on a mockup of the hull so I can work out the angle to drill the prop shaft, in the plans this boat had a direct drive so the gearbox might be moving the center of gravity a bit. the prop is a 13x13 4 blade and in the ski boat the shaft was at an angle of 17 degrees witch seems a lot. If any of you guys have any tips for me that would be great.