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Sabtu, 21 Januari 2017

McGuiver goes boat building!!!!

Sunday 16th december 07

Today, I went mad..... In my wisdom I decided FR 14 was going in whether it liked it or now.
No crane, nobody else but the boys. so the gentle art of "McGuiver" came into play.

Step 1. Load heavy Frame onto truck tail lift.

Angle it upwards and drag it onto the scaffold tower

Roll tower to bow and shove it onto the tops of the hull.

Now, this piece has to be fitted by dropping it straight down onto the centre piece to support it.

Build the above contraption form whatever is to hand. and attach a 250kg wire winch to make a crane (we use these for lifting lighting gear. )

Add a 5yr old boy to press the buttons.. explaining the dangers and how much is "a little bit" ....

Voilla... Dara does a great job.

Fitted like a glove.

Selasa, 10 Januari 2017

The 8th Annual CBMM Maritime Model Boat Expo May 19 20 2012

We do several shows every year. Although we are in the "business" of making model boats, not all of our shows are expected to be major selling events for us. Why would any business person say this? The making and selling of custom scratch-built model boats is definitely a niche market and for us every time we display them in public is an element of the marketing process. We like to say "sowing seeds". The fact of the matter is that there are very few shows with clusters of people of whom we can expect to commission a serious model boat then and there. For most people, commissioning a model is something that requires consideration.This is as it should be. For this reason we do shows over a wide geographical area and our website is very important in helping us to sow those seeds to people the world over.

Some shows have other, different, benefits for us. As you might imagine, working on hundreds of very small pieces constantly can sometimes get draining. There are some shows that we go to in order to become energized. Not everyone realizes, when they see a model, that a large part of making it happen is art. Art is a large part of our lives and even though we are not painters, sculptors, or jewelers, per se, the things that people do in those other arts are the elements of what we do. In addition, just being with people who do what they do, whose philosophies are to do the best that they can, in whatever their discipline, is good for the soul.

I will tell you honestly that for years we had stopped doing what were referred to as "model shows". People thought that we were crazy for this. "Youll sell tons of models." The fact is that model shows are not a great place to sell models, if that is the primary goal.

With age I find that doing shows in order to get energized and to spend time with people with like interests and skills is not a bad business decision, when you compare it to continuing education credits required in other disciplines, or various conventions or meetings - It makes you better at what you do.

We had stopped going to model shows, because, at the time, we felt that they were not a place to make sales. Perhaps, for the reasons stated above, we should have looked at other benefits to be had.

This weekend we will be at The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum for their Annual Maritime Model Expo in St. Michaels, Maryland. We went last year and realized what we were missing when we got there and saw some of our old friends such as Jean Preckel, Jim Wortman, members of the Museums Model Guild, members of The Washington Ship Modeling Society (I know that I dont have the name exactly right), as well as meeting several new ones. There was a model of a skipjack that the builder had been working on for 27 years! The guys from Washington are working with ever new techniques and are delving farther into the reaches of maritime history to find more interesting subjects to model. Other model makers had beautiful and unique display ideas. There is also a "lake" set up for R/C and pond yachts and these guys are having fun!.

So, just as some shows energize us in the realms of the arts, this is a show that energizes us, because it has so many people with the common interest of making model boats. Of course you have the various factions R/C vs Static, scratch-built vs kits. It doesnt matter. They are in for the love of it. There are experts in all types of model boat making and youll find novices and the masters masters. I recommend that you come to this show. Well certainly be there...

More infomation here: http://cbmm.org/modelexpo/index.htm

Selasa, 15 November 2016

The Nice Thing About Having A Boat Is

There is always something to do. Always a problem to be solved, or a combining of my interests.

I arrived at the boat yesterday afternoon armed with necessary tools to sort out the grotty and dismal array of plants and mostly weeds on our mooring. This is supposed to be done by the Environment agency who we rent from but there doesnt seem to be a schedule of maintenance but strangely there is a schedule of Direct Debits. Anyway before I got on with the stuff I like I decided it was best to get this done and out of the way as the weather was reasonable and the forecast was poor.

About 2 hours saw the job done and all the dead nettles, thistles and sapling Elderberry trees were dispatched. Hopefully this will allow some grass to grow.

I have been playing with streaming CCTV for a while now and having bought a new Webcam decided I needed to run some new consealed wires to get the signal back to the laptop in the lounge and then out though the router to the interweb. Knowing the limt for USB is 5m I saw an adaptor that extends USB over cat5e. On my last visit to the boat I duly installed a length of cat5e cable in the bedroom ceiling down behind the wardrobes, under the bathroom cabinets and into the lounge drilling necessary holes as I went along all of which are out of general sight. All of this took several hours.

Once this was done I powered up the Webcam only to find for whatever reason that it would only send a 174 x 122 image not the 1280 x 1024 it was bought for. A bit of digging on the canal forum as there are lots of very cleaver people there with a combined mass of knowledge on all subjects lead me to order a 15m powered USB cable. Prior to installing the cable I tested it and all was good.

How pleased was I that when I put the cat5e in the ceiling void I decided to put in an additional trace wire. The result was the new UBB cable was fitted in about 20 minutes.

The intention is to stream live video from the boat as we cruise along, or sometimes if we are just sat mooring. This can be seen at the Vaughn site. If you go over there you can become a follower and you will get an email when the camera goes live. All of this is free and theres currently no adverts on the video feed.

Next up was to run some more cat5e (2 lots) so I can run the bedroom TV on an HDMI extender as this too has a 5m limit and get HD TV in the bedroom rather than just what comes down the coax feed. While I had the carpet up to hide the cables I sorted out the creaky floor that has been anoying me on my seemingly evermore frequent visits to the loo at night.

This morning it was time to service the generator. It has reached 2400 hours and the oil was looking decidedly black. With the oil and filter changed and the diesel filter checked for water (none) and changed it was the turn of the impeller. This as you can see was definitely in need of changing.

The fan belt was checked for wear and adjustment and both were found to be fine.

A while back I moved the Inverter to under the stairs See Here. And having sorted out the charging so the charger works much harder it then got really hot which caused it to reduce its output so it remaind happy. Result back to square one after a while of running. See you solve one problem and another problem arises! The only thing to do is to put some extraction fans in to dump the heat. The easiest way to power these is from the inverters own fan power supply, that way they would only be on as required. So this meant taking the inverter out again to gain access to the fan wiring. I took no chances this time. I photographed the wiring just to remind me not to wire it up wrong.

The fan on the Victron is 24v so I got 2 x 12v 5" fans and wired them in series, drilled 2 x 5" holes in the stair sides just next the the inverter, put in some wiring with an in line connector and hey presto it all worked.

I just need to get some nice covers for the outside of the stairs.

Its not too much of a problem as its very difficult to see them. They are not in general sight.

The inverter now runs cold to the touch and is once again outputting maximum charge.

Kamis, 06 Oktober 2016

The Decision to Build a Boat

"The desire to build a boat is one of those that cannot be resisted. It begins as a little cloud on a serene horizon. It ends by covering the whole sky, so that you can think of nothing else. You must build to regain your freedom."

-Arthur Ransome, 1923

If your goal is to sail the world on a limited budget (in my case, very limited), it really makes no sense to build a boat yourself. The materials for the bare hull are often far more expensive than a turn-key secondhand boat. Most would-be backyard boat builders dont want believe this-- they think, "Well, those people must be using expensive, exotic hardwoods for their boat. Im going to build mine to workboat standards." or "I can buy un-milled lumber and do the milling myself" or some variety of, "Well, Im different." I know people think this because I thought it, and Ive heard it from many armchair boat builders. I now know that it is not true-- I got some amazing deals on materials, found salvaged hardware on eBay, Im using roofing tar as my bedding compound, galvanized iron fastenings, and white porch paint to finish her off. Luna is not just a workboat, she is a down home workboat. And I have still spent way more than I would have on a used boat. In fact, had I purchased a used boat, I might already be out on the water like these awesome folks. Sometimes in life you have to do what you want, even if it doesnt make sense.

I really just wanted to build a wooden boat. I knew it was impractical, nonsensical, and that I didnt have the skills or know-how, but I was taken by the romance and beauty of wooden boat building. Funny enough, Ive found you dont need to know much about wooden boats to begin building one. Lucky for me, I came across George Buehlers designs and book. This guy is really extraordinary. Hes pared down the beautifully complex combination of art and science of boat building for those of us who just want a safe boat to go to sea in. No treatises on hydrodynamic theory, no hand waving, no boat building mysticism. Just practical, lay instructions on how to build a boat. Simple.

down home boat building fun

(17 bucks on Amazon)

Granted, due to my lack of experience, I will be churning out a vessel more akin to a swamp boat than a fine New England yacht, but Id be willing to bet the Clampetts had a helluva lot more fun than the Vanderbilts.
Lastly, this documentary perfectly captures the essence of wooden boat building (click below to watch it for free!):

"Building Charlotte"-- A beautiful documentary about the Gannon and Benjamin Marine Railway, an extraordinary boatyard located on Marthas Vineyard.

Senin, 19 September 2016

10 Simple Steps to a Boat Frame

When I read other boat building blogs, Im always a little embarrassed for myself. Other builders shops are so clean, their joints so perfect, the tools shiny and brand-name. You wont find much of that over here on Building Luna. As mentioned earlier, I have a rather down home (see Urban Dictionary) boat building style. I still feel pretty unsophisticated in the world of boat builders.

On the bright side, I guess I dont allow myself to feel intimidated by all the builders doing stuff the "proper way." This isnt rocket science. Take, for example, the frame I built on Monday (the last one!!):

Step 1: This here is the frame building table-- just plywood underlay screwed to an IKEA platform bed frame that my mattress used to be on. The mattress has been on my bedroom floor for the duration of frame construction-- the likely cause of my many intimate encounters with insects over the past 6 months (see Giant Millipede Incident of 2012)

Step 2: Draw in the frames using measurements from the table of offsets. Note roof tar, sawdust, and regular dirt dust.

Step 3: Screw some blocks to the table at your frame lines to butt the frames up against. Most plans are drawn to the outside of the planking. These blocks are the width of my planking so I dont have to worry about that detail while assembling the frame.

Step 4: Get frame lumber. I milled the 2 x 4s needed for the frames out of this gorgeous 8/4 rough rift sawn white oak that I snagged for cheap in Austin.

Step 5: Cut the frame lumber. The angles at the butts are easily taken from the lines drawn on the table. Note from the picture in Step 2 that the bevels on the frames are sawed before assembly. I took these angles from the lines plan. While they are probably "shallower" than what Ill need, itll make beveling the standing frames less of a pain.

Step 6: Soak the joints that will not be glued with copper napthanate.

Step 7: While I do make some effort to get the joints to fit nicely, Its not important to me to get them perfect where no one will see them. I smear them with roof tar.

The poor boat builders dolphinite. $27 for a 5 gallon bucket.

Step 8: Smoosh the butt joints together and liberally apply a waterproof adhesive where the gusset will go.

Step 9: Temporarily screw on the gussets while the glue dries (the screws will later be replaced with bolts).

Step 10: Screw on some temporary cross-braces to make sure the frame maintains its shape until the planking goes on. Done!

Actually, this probably wasnt the best frame to document here on the blog. Its construction was a bit atypical. Normally, gussets go on front and back side of the frame . Initially, they get clamped on and holes are drilled through the whole thing for bolts. Then everything gets diassembled, and glue is applied to the gussets. Finally, the whole thing is bolted together and cinched tight. Still pretty easy peasy.

The frame shown above is different from the norm because the floor at this particular station is high enough that it will serve as the gussett on the back side of the frame. I temporarily screwed on the front-side gusset until the frame gets clamped to the floor, then Ill drill for bolts when I know exactly where the floor will hit the frame.

Cant wait to add it to Lunas growing body!

After I finished building the last frame, I marked all of the frame gussets where the chine notches need to be cut with a handsaw.

Im hoping to convince Ramon to make this job part of his daily workout.

Its nice to know that even the professionals sometimes make do with what they have.

Minggu, 18 September 2016

Another Nice Weekend On The Boat

We had the pleasure of Sue and Vic on our boat on Saturday night after having a shopping trip into Ely for essential supplies for all and a nice pub lunch together.

Sunday was a bit of harder work. I painted some more of the roof and the concrete on our mooring was well overgrown having not been cut back for some years would be my guess. So I dug it out. You can see how much has been retrieved by looking at the dark stained area.

This is actually our mooring but for the time being the higher bank a bit further along suits us fine.

Its handy for getting onto the roof and is a bit shielded

Oh, and the moorings on the other side of the river are part of a marina and the fees there are 3 x what we pay.

Minggu, 28 Agustus 2016

The Adirondack Guide Boat too much technology

Plans of the Adirondack guide boat from the Mystic Seaport Museum which sells them for $75.

Lines of the Adirondack Guide Boat from the Mystic Seaport Museum

Description of the Adirondack Guide Boat from the Mystic Seaport Museum site:

Guideboats are bottom-board boats with natural knees used as frames: the dory-building technique taken to the extreme. Builders developed a smooth-skin lap strake construction method now known as the guideboat lap. The small boats-like the 13 Parsons boat at 57 pounds and the 13 6" Blanchard boat at 53 pounds-were best suited to be carried in to fish small ponds, for which they were called "raiders." The 16 guideboats are considered the best compromise between speed and carrying capacity, working well solo or carrying a guide and sport with their load of camping gear. The 16 GHOST weighs just 64 pounds, while the 15 7" Cole boat weighs 59. The plans drawn by Dave Dillion do not require lofting; full dimensions are provided for each frame. Hallie Bonds Boats and Boating in the Adirondacks provides more historical information. Today, guideboats are successfully built as frameless strip-planked boats and as semi-strip-planked boats with glued joints over laminated frames. From 87 Boat Designs by Ben Fuller. Boat is owned by the Adirondack Museum(64.170.1), Blue Mountain Lake, New York. Plans drawn in 1984.

So the other day, a friend of mine called me to see if I wanted to see his new/old guideboat that he had bought on craigslist for about $1k. The boat was an original built about 100 years ago. The boat was still mostly intact. There was one hole in it that had been patched and most of the planking was still sound except for a few places where the planks had opened up.
Ribs/frames were in two halves with their bottoms overlapping and nailed together as well as screwed to the floor plank. Each rib was sawn from natural crooks, that is wood whose grain roughly followed the curve of the rib. A number of ribs near the center of the boat had the same shape. Toward the ends of the boat, the ribs gradually became narrower. Builders appear not to have had lines for these boats. Instead, each builder had templates for their ribs. None of those seem to have survived. The lines shown in the drawings above were taken off boats that have made it into museums.
The planking edges were beveled and lapped with the laps clinch nailed to each other.
As I understand the process, the ribs were first attached to the bottom plank and then the planks were screwed to the ribs.
The guide boats had a relatively short life span. Apparently, they were designed specifically for the guide trade in which the guide needed a boat big enough for two people but light enough to carry between lakes lacking road access. As soon as roads were built to the lakes and resorts built on their shores, the need for the guides went away and with them their boats.
Finally, I would like to share some unease I had with this boat when I was first exposed to it. My unease stemmed from the fact that this boat required an industrial economy to build. Not only did you need a professional boat builder with a band saw but you also needed thin planks and lots of small screws and nails, none of which you could readily scrounge from your immediate environment. The guide boat clearly did not meet the post-apocalyptic stamp of approval, that is, it would be impractical or even impossible in a world that lacked a sophisticated industrial economy to supply all its component parts and tools to manufacture them.

Kamis, 18 Agustus 2016

Across Atlantic Ice or people came to America by boat

In their book Across Atlantic Ice, the authors posit the theory that people of the Clovis culture came to America along the edge of the ice sheet that went from the northern coast of Spain to the northern Atlantic coast of America. The idea is that they traveled by boat, skinboat supposedly along the ice edge and ate sea mammals that they killed along the way.
You can read the book if you are interested in the details. The main reason the authors posited their theory of migration by sea was that the mainstream theory which had people walking to America lacked any evidence to back it up. Had the Clovis people walked to America, there should be some trace of their presence in the form of spear points found in Alaska or Siberia, but there wasnt. Instead, the authors claim that the Clovis trail of artifacts leads back to the coast of Spain.
Critics of this theory say that there is no evidence of the boats that the Clovis people supposedly used to make their crossing. Of course there wouldnt be after all this time because the organic materials that made up the boats would long have disappeared.
But the main thing that interests me about this dispute is the inability of modern people to imagine the ability of earlier humans to build boats. It is also something that the authors accuse their critics of. In any case, there are other migrations that were made thousands of years ago, like the migration to Australia that left no evidence of boats although they could not have been made in any other way given that even at lowest sea levels there was water between their starting point and their destination.
Michael Collins, the author of the foreword to the book calls this inability to imagine that ancient people were as imaginative as contemporary humans paleoracism. I dont know that I would call that shortage of imagination racism, but it springs out of the same place that racism does, out of the inability to give others full credit for human abilities.

Rabu, 17 Agustus 2016

Boat bending

29th December 07

The 28th was cancelled due to extreme rain and wind, Today a small lake surrounded the boat.
We managed to raise the 4th side piece on the 27th, now to fit it.
The opposite side fitted better than this one. Looking at the initial offering up, it looked like it would never fit, too high in places and too low in others. Nothing lined up... (to other potential builders.. a word of advise... dont panic and relax, let the boat build its self. The kits are extremely accurate but on this side the boat its self wasnt the right shape to have this part fitted, its that simple. So on my own and with a lot of 5000kg span sets I went about lowering the centre of the boat by over 12mm.. as its only tack welded it will move.

Below: These parts were out of align by nearly 10 mm. I used 3 x 5ton straps to the RSJ frame and a 6 ton jack to rise the lower of the 2 bits.. and yes, the boat came into shape. its really mind over matter.

Bottom lined up, and later the top came into line,

All the straps pulling the floor of the boat to suit the side sheet. Remember the side sheet will not bend, but the boat will.

All the internal lines, markings for the frames lined up 100% inside. if you look closely, frame 10( ST10C-2) will have to come up 5-7 mm.. and once I have the next piece offered up it will..

Senin, 08 Agustus 2016

Im often asked why Im building a boat

Well this was my plan, but like all good ideas its been nabbed.

Dont tell Deb though.

Minggu, 07 Agustus 2016

Unusual Boat

This boat moored up next to us last night.

There is much talk of wrapping as a way of "painting" a narrowboat, or indeed any boat.

www.maidoffibre.com

I had a very close look and even close too its difficult to see the joins. As this is a printed design its camouflaged to a great extent. I think if it was to be done as a single colour it would have to be done in a continuous strip or the joints over the windows at the shortest point.

The windows have also been done and from the outside they look covered but on closer inspection it can be seen they are full of small holes. The owner said looking out was different.

Selasa, 02 Agustus 2016

Post apocalyptic Boat Building

Why build skin boats? Ive been asking myself that ever since I started building skin boats. Ive come up with a bunch of practical reasons such as low price but thats not really why I built them. First and foremost I liked the looks of skin boats. But right up there with good looks was also a yearning for self-reliance. I wanted to be able to build a boat that at least in principle I could build entirely from scavenged materials with simple tools that if need be I could make myself.
For the sake of convenience, I use electrical tools to cut the wood and synthetic fiber cloth as a skin and petroleum based paint to seal the skin so I dont really build an entirely off the grid boat. But I like to imagine that I could build a boat strictly from found materials in the manner that people of the Arctic once did. In a way, the Arctic before the arrival of the Europeans was very much like what a post-apocalyptic (PA) world would be like. No stores, no factories, no electricity. Everything you wanted you had to scrounge or barter for.
But a PA world would not look exactly like the pre-industrial Arctic. A PA world would have a lot of stuff from the industrial world still laying around like scrap metal, wire, plywood, tar and even ready to use hand-tools. A PA world would not be a stone age world necessarily. It would be a world that had very little new stuff in it. If you wanted new stuff, like a new kayak for instance, you or one of your friends would have to make it themselves.
Could I build a boat entirely from scrounged materials in a PA world? Probably. More than likely, if I wanted a boat with some cargo capacity, I would probably scavenge plywood, and make it out of that. I dont know what would be available in the way of sealers to keep the boat from leaking, but I could probably find something.
If I wanted to build a skin on frame kayak, that would be fairly easy. Plenty of construction lumber installed in buildings. I am assuming that I could get some hand saws. The hardest thing to find would be a suitable skin. I imagine myself scrounging tarps or awnings and sewing those together, again, assuming I could get a hold of some needles or maybe even make them from bone. If the tarps were plastic, they wouldnt need a sealer. If the tarps were not plastic, I would have to figure out a way to make them waterproof.
Hunting sea mammals for skins would be more or less out of the question. That would require more skill than I have. Even if I could manage to kill a sea lion hauled out on a beach by stealth, I would need four skins to cover a kayak. Getting four skins would be way too ambitious.
But how exactly did people of the Arctic build their kayaks in a pre-industrial world? We have some ideas but Europeans have been going to the Arctic since the 17th century and most of the kayaks now in museums were built with at least some access to steel tools and also possible to milled lumber.
The pictures below show what kayak building looked like in the transitionary period when people in the Arctic still built kayaks, but had industrially sourced tools and materials available to them. The kayak type being built here is Eastern Arctic, that is Canadian Arctic. These kayaks were long flat and stable and if you killed a seal, you transported the carcass on the wide back deck of the kayak.

Heres a guy in his open air workshop, no special jigs or benches or other sort of stuff you would expect to find in a boat shop. But he does seem to have a handsaw that he is using to trim something in the cockpit area of his kayak.

This guy is sitting in his workshop. Hes using some rocks to level out the deck of his kayak. Hes got the rib blanks stuck into their mortises, all ready for bending and trimming. Or maybe he is going to do three-part ribs with hard corners. Also not the canvas tent in the background.

Here two people are working at putting a skin on the finished kayak frame. The skin is canvas, not seal hide so one or two people can do the job. Putting on seal hide usually was a task for many women since the hides had to be kept wet and pieced together which required way more sewing than was practical for one woman to do by herself although it was probably done solo sometimes by necessity. Also not the wood plank in the foreground, evidence of milled lumber brought into this location, probably by ship. Also note the long wide and flat back deck suitable for transporting the spoils of the hunt.

So what can we say about boat building in an imaginary PA world? Probably possible as long as nobody has any set ideas about what is allowed in the ways of tools and materials.

Rabu, 06 Juli 2016

Boat Safety Certificate Done!

After re doing the gas main I wanted to get a gas check done. As this forms a significant part of the UK BSS certificate I thought I might as well have the hole thing done. I I have built the boat to the RCD I didnt need to have this done for for years but I thought why not, it wasnt much more in cost. I am pleased to say that the whole boat and its systems passed first time and the certificate was issued. So the boat now has belt and braces paperwork.

Senin, 04 Juli 2016

Boat Yards have their uses !!!!

Ok, so you want to build a boat, in your garden, in Ireland, and it rains for a week. !!

Short of a few more welds what we have built so far nearly floated...

the result was a mud bath...

On wednesday, 22 ton of stone and a roller left us tired and a new flat DRY surface to work from. I did take pics but it was too dark for the camera.

Before

After..

Minggu, 12 Juni 2016

DIY BOAT BUILDING GALLERY

All frames had been cut to fit and temporary assemble indoor.70% of the lumber I used are 2nd hand cengal wood. Frames and keel are transferred to a larger space at my yard for assemble.

Stem that cut to desired shape and fitted to the stem knee.

Installing the deck plate

The chines are up,by wrapping the part that needed for bending with some rags and soak with boiling water,this way will soften the lumber to make bending easier.

Bottom battens are added to the framework.

Side battens and sheer clamps fitted in firm and aligned.

This is the outboard mounting transom which I extended out off the original plan.

They are my buddies,thats all the tool Im having.so far so good,going to add in a router and orbiter sander later on.What do you think?Awesome right?

Below are free plans which I"d downloaded from the net.there are quite detailing and useful for anyone who like to start a DIY boat project.Is a 21-ft cabin cruiser plan.What I did was expended the scale of 1:1.5.That is 150% from the original size.Extra frames are needed to add in as to the expansion made.

Video clips of boat building are essential sources for collecting info and techniques of how others DIY and professional boat builder had build their boat.Id ran through hundreds of videos from youtube and other sources and gathered as much info as possible to assist my project.

Here are some inspiring and helpful video to share.

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Has been three moths since my first post,this project is out off my schedule,never thought that the works are getting harder and time consuming,it OK,that doesnt kill me,my spirit is still high.,a lot of mistake been made and redo,two chine stock has been broken,both chine are split from a single lumber and not noticing there is knot in it although is a solid knot,it broke while bending them.

So far Ive added 9 frames to the hull structure with the total of 14 frames compare to the original 5 frames structure given in the plan due to the expansion Ive made.although frames spacing two feet is not favourable but Ill add more supporting structure like bulkhead and so on.To fare the entire structure to flush with the plywood plank is my next job.Meranti marine plywood BS1088 is the highest grade here in Malaysia but I cannot afford it,instead off that,Im going for another grade,they are marine plywood too,using local hard wood ,which also meet the BS 1088 standard ,saving half of the cost compare to Meranti grade.

The outer stem was shaped by hand and double framing transom or maybe Im just over concern about the weight that the transom is taking. &n

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