Kevin Kenny

Port #7 installed

I have decided to reduce the end at the stern on strake 7 to 5” instead of 10.5” so that i end below the top of stern keelson. I have noticed in one of the builds that the end was also reduced to two strakes treated similarly to the front of the stemson. Maybe i should have curved #6 more at the stern end!

I have decided to reduce the end at the stern on strake 7 to 5” instead of 10.5” so that i end below the top of stern keelson. I have noticed in one of the builds that the end was also reduced to two strakes treated similarly to the front of the stemson. Maybe i should have curved #6 more at the stern end!

Bending the forward piece of strake 7

Greg

they arrived on sat so I’ll pick them up next month when I am in New York.

6 completed

Very well done. I know how difficult this was to do as i too made a set for my America build.

Greg

they arrived on sat so I’ll pick them up next month when I am in New York.

I am developing a clamp that will go between the frames to hold the internal planks. This is my first attempt that i will refine over time

Hi Hal

the dowel tool comes from Vander lay Industries . Here is the link

http://vanda-layindustries.com/html/treenail_instructions.html

Great idea about the knurled screws but they will be almost impossible to find here in Trinidad. I do have washers on the screws. The wood is an extreamly hard wood which i threaded then put  CA so it should last a while. I am in New York next month and will try to find the screws. 

Photo of completed work

Starboard side 

Greg

was the end of the second limber strake also thinned to 2” over 9ft and was the end tapered over 9ft 

Haha, it can’t get any worst than my path. But you know something,  the journey has been fantastic and my skills have improved as I get past each challenge, each screw up and perhaps more important, ever time I get it right the first time. 

Kevin

Its so great to be following you in my build. I cant tell you how much i learned from following your progress. 

I just like epoxy for major strength pieces. I am a big boat builder and cant get epoxy out of my system. I could have cut it out but the truth is i was able to solve the problem.

This is an excellent video on building a real life stern assembly.

Thanks goodness because it will be very difficult to do it now. Phew. 

Hi Greg

we have huge swings in Humidity which is why i like to use epoxy when ever possible. Having said that i have not had any problems with the 9 models i have built so far.  I feel that it is because i dry my wood for at least two years before using. 

I had not planned to fill the bottom space between the frames. If you feel it is essential i can still do this with difficulty. My memory of Davids view was that this was optional so i did not plan to add the fillers pieces as the entire model will be planked. His referance is book 1 page 164 3.26.  Perhaps what made me not want to do this is that for whatever reason the spaces between the frames were all over the place. It sould have been a real pain. Ill go back and look at Bens post. Assuming that i do not add them i will continue to build the inner limber stakes, the mast steps hooks and the crutch.  Then i plan to go to the wale and plank up to the deck. I do not plan to install rib bands as they would be tempory at best.