While the snow flies...

I did say that this is something to do while I wait for better weather. I have 3 other boat projects that are languishing in the (unheated ) garage. This at least I can get up and around the stairs from the basement (I think/hope). Besides...it will fit in the bed of my SB Pickup or on the rack of my escort wagon. You know...you gotta watch out when drilling on the living room floor...the carpet gets wrapped up in the bit if you don't watch out!

 

Change to a hole saw!

(unless you really like the carpet)

 

Hmmm. A wooden bathtub. Interesting concept. Anyone have lines and developments for that?

 

http://www.cedartubs.com/?gclid=CLeE2qvB9Z8CFYNo5Qod4E7ofQ

Just watch out for splinters.

 

Charlie Brown Syndrome

This build definitely has the syndrome...or more likely I do. So far I have made two major screw ups and I only have the side panels cut out and butted together. Being as the boat is 5.5 ft long and my panels are only 5x5 I needed to do the side panels in 2 pieces each. Not a problem says I. I copied all my offsets out properly, laid out the larger piece of one side and cut it out, traced it and cut the other side out...I even flipped it to get the mirror properly...no real need as the plywood is BB but anyways. I go and start laying out the little add on...which was supposed to go near the transom...and lo and behold...it is at the bow. Awww....Lemons! So I consider Lemonade...I need the front to be a bit stiffer anyhow so the most severe bend in the side panel is about 2.5 ft aft of the bow...This will help a bit with the stiffness. So I glue my butt block (a 1.5" strip of the same 3mm ply) on one panel one day and on the other panel the next. I swear I mirrored them before gluing...but when I got up...guess what. I made 2 port sides or I have a block on the outside of starboard side. The rest of the day/night went quite the same way. So after getting home from job one and before I go to the next I buffed off the seeped epoxy and glued another butt on the opposite side of one of the panels. Tomorrow I'll grind down the other butt (lord let me get THIS right...Please!) and drive on to the next major F-up. Time to lay out the bottom. I have never had so much problems per foot of boat length in over 10 years of puttering around with boat building!



Here is a pic of the side panels...the one on the bottom curing after receiving it's second block. Yes it is in my living room...It's good to be the King!

 

I don't know how you feel about the screwups, but they are making me feel a lot better!

Not that I don't sympathise, I do. Too much! I don't sympathise about all the other boat building jobs waiting for their turn though: that's merely a healthy obsession ruining your life.

This forum is basically group therapy for folks with that sort of thing ...

 

Ramping up progress here...went 3D today. Got home...checked forums and email then got to work. Ground off the bad butt block (and got the right one), then laid out the bottom and cut it out. Just finished stitching things together loosely to see how it all fit together...Perfect! Only shed a little blood and got a couple of splinters...small price for a good day. Oh...and the hull weighs 11 lbs as of now.

 

he he lewisboats when you got the itch ya got it

i also just had to do it - never quite know why

 

never a truer word spoken

 

"Bye bye Folks - off to see the world he he"

- not in that boat I assume?

 

I am only now getting back to my micro after the horrible Dec Jan Feb season - you know the feeling - no bucks - **** work - children begging for more
hopefully i shall do some seriously good sailing in my micro oneday

 

Opinions please...the side panels at the transom have a slight bit of curl inwards from the chine to the shear...what do you think of making the transom edge curve inwards and make it almost vertical as it meets the shear?
As bendy as this ply is...it could be done. A bonus would be a probable stiffening of the side panels in the aft end of the boat.



Kinda like this.

 

I doubt that it would stiffen the side panels; ply is only going to curve significantly around one axis at a time so it will merely flex around a different axis. It would only be for appearance.

What did you plan to do for stiffness? Maine's torque box is neat, stiffness, seat, bouyancy, and supports the bottom too.

 

ak is right-the result would probably be deformed from trying to bend vertically, and not worth the effort.

 

and it worked very well for weight **** to get the boat to sit level in the water 10" wide (250mm) very comfortable