{"id":112,"date":"2020-01-26T20:55:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T03:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/?p=112"},"modified":"2020-07-09T10:04:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T16:04:42","slug":"1-26-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/?p=112","title":{"rendered":"1\/26\/20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I finally have a long break to work on the boat. With the keelson dried and set for three weeks, I cut the keelson to fit the curve of the fore and aft stems. I finally bought a power planer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I started by breaking in my new power planer. I have to say it is a very nice piece of kit. I tapered the keelson and the stems using a batten to check the plane in every direction I could find and adjusted on the fly. When I got it to the state where I was satisfied, I started working out the gar boards again because I haven\u2019t yet received the new set of plans Robert is sending. I\u2019m working from the 1 to 1.54 scale drawing and hoping for the best. I measured and annotated the plans, then transferred the marks to the forms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When I have the new plans, I will double check and adjust if I have to. At this point, I want to make progress, so I hope my measurements are close. I started making the garboards out of the 5mm plywood but after making them, I discovered that the plywood is too thin to hold up to the twisting forces of the hull shape. I went to the lumber yard in search of the cheap 3\/8 plywood they have advertised but I haven\u2019t been able to find. I finally realized that the store put the affordable plywood outside in the shed where it is hard to find. This way, they sell more of the expensive stuff. I got a couple of sheets to try it out and used the thin garboards as a pattern for the new plywood. It worked great and I\u2019m quite happy with the results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After I finished the garboards, I started making the patterns for the second strake. I decided to use the thin ply for patterns, as to not waste it, and use the 3\/8 ply for the hull. I will still be coating everything with epoxy because the plywood is not marine grade and would likely not hold up. I used the patterns to cut the pieces from the thicker plywood and then I epoxied all the pieces together. While the pieces were setting, I tapered the top edge of the garboard strake in preparation for the second strake. I used thickened epoxy to glue the second strake to the first. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With the second strake installed on both sides, it is starting to look like a boat. This has to be one of the coolest things I\u2019ve ever attempted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I noticed a couple of problems today. First, my aft stem is too short. I added 11\u201d to it. Now, it may be a bit long but I can cut it off after I turn the boat over. The other thing I have noticed is that the strakes don\u2019t seem to come out on the aft right. I hope it is an incorrect measurement somewhere and I can easily fix it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I finally have a long break to work on the boat. With the keelson dried and set for three weeks, I cut the keelson to fit the curve of the fore and aft stems. I finally bought a power planer. I started by breaking in my new power planer. I have to say it is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2,4,3],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mea","tag-boat-build","tag-iain-oughtred-design","tag-wee-seal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}