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Core Sound 20 Mark III #3 "Skeena"


Steve W

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  • 3 weeks later...

Slow progress as it's sailing season! Luckily I have three boats to sail while I work on "no name" 

 

I'm at the cabin roof. I perused Pete's pictures and others. I glued a strip down the center of the two cabin tops and laid it up on the top of the boat. Unfortunately, my 2nd bulkhead collapsed a bit under the pressure of the hull panels and I assume the humidity of my work area. So the roof doesn't lay real good because of this. It's got gaps as big a 3/16". I made the hatch "frame" on a perfectly flat surface and glued it in, with a wider piece clamped with it to keep it from sagging. To get it to fit at the sprung bulkhead I had to trim about 7/16 of material from both sides of the "knee" part.  I'm fine with not letting perfection be the enemy of good, but the fix has me scratching my head. I am thinking to  glue in shims to the top of the plywood to get it perfect like "Chessie".

 

My questions.

 

1. I wired in the knees and glued in the forward ones, but I am planning on removing the aft ones after the top is on. I have sat below and think these are in the way and since Doug Cameron's boat doesn't need them, I'm not having them. Chick built some kind of laminate beam here, but I'm having trouble figuring out how he kept the right shape. did  you make a big laminate beam somewhat to the shape and then planed it down to match the temporary knee?

 

2. In this picture, stolen from Pete, the support beams look like bent cleat stock, but after trying to bend stock that short, my guess is they were traced off the top edge (pattern bit?.....too late!) and then a parallel band-saw cut gives them this nice looking curve.

 

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3. In the plans, there are extra longitudinal supports not shown in Pete's picture. Knowing I have to add them in (Pete apparently didn't know until later), what does the joint look like? Butt joints? Half lap joints?  It seems to me as long as there is a good bond to the roof panels a butt joint would suffice.

 

Thanks in advance.

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Steve. I knew the width and crown needed for the beams. Alan supplied this info. I made a jig to bend 1/4 inch laminations around. The beams are, I think, 4 laminations. I actually added about 1/2" more to the crown figuring some spring back, and this worked out almost perfect. When I set the beams in place, one of them was slightly low, so I just used a stick down to the hull to force it up, and left it in place until the cabin top was finished. The other beams, plywood top, and longitudinal beam down the center kept everything in perfect alignment.

 

I just don't like the knees in the cabin. to me they are visually in the way, and potential head knockers. Discussion of the beams is on page-6 of my build. "Summer Breeze - Core Sound 17, Mk-3"  The center beam is on page-7.

 

 

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Hi Steve, looking good!  I used knees and beams......Chick can relate why.  I installed the knees then used a batten to capture the arc of the cabin top, then transferred it to pattern paper.  I cut the beams out of some locally grown white oak and attached them to the knees.  When I installed the cabin top it made a nice fair arc.  I butt joined the pieces on the centerline with another piece of oak.  So far no problems and I am a "larger" guy. 

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  • 3 weeks later...

Wow! 3D printing has come a long way in 25 years.  I remember when we used a laser, printing in a slurry bath.  The resultant plastic was so brittle it was only good to use as a visual aid.  

 

Can't wait to hear your naming story.  I still get asked if I'm a beekeeper.  My boat's name is Local Honey.

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3 hours ago, Ken_Potts said:

3D printing has come a very long way.  They're even using it to make rocket engines these days: http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/missions/commercial/rocket-lab-electron-rutherford-peter-beck-started-first-place/

 

 

Which proves once again that Kiwis really can fly!! ;) 

Steve, all names have an interesting history, and "Jazz Hands" looks quite unique. Looking forward to the back story.

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jazz hands
noun
  1. a gesture in which the hands are waved rapidly to and fro with the palms facing forward and the fingers splayed, used typically to express or indicate excitement or triumph.

The story:

 

My wife's mom had her and her two sibling in classic and modern dance when they were young and as a result my wife is a great dancer. Her biggest skill though is dance parodies. She can imitate anything from classic ballet to disco to the whole Snoopy gang doing each Christmas dance as well and every other dance craze through the years. It is hysterical. 
 

Of course the kids were cool with it through the early years but became mortified a bit as they got older. Anyway, my kids found musicals in high school. My wife and I would always tease them when they came home from practice with the question "Jazz Hands? Is there a dance with Jazz hands?" to which there response was "No! No jazz hands."

 

Helen and Andrew were finally in a production of "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and we got Jazz hands. It was a great moment for us.

 

But it didn't stop the gesture from being my wife's and occasionally my wave during sporting events, hellos and goodbyes. My wife gets pretty animated during the gesture and it was Helen who suggested we name her "Jazz Hands". As a tribute to family and especially my wife. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Great Story. The scroll-work in the cabin of my boat is a tribute to my wife's family, as I cut it out of a favourite old piece of furniture that had belonged to her grandmother but had become derelict. The name "Dragonfly" is a tribute to our years of flying an aircraft that I built called a Dragonfly Mk2. When I was a boy my father operated a small coastal cargo vessel called the "Briscal" - it operated mostly between BRISbane and CALoundra. So it just proves - every boat name has a story.

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  • 1 month later...

I stopped home for lunch today and waiting by my garage was three big boxes of stuff from B & B. Sails (Main, Mizzen, Mizzen Staysail) and battens, the new style mast track and rivets, the oval port lights that Carlita sports (these look really great), and some of that sweet B & B epoxy filler that makes all others seem lame. While I work on the cabin top , I'll also start assembling the masts and look for stock for the sprits. I just had a bathroom remodeled and am forced to build closet organizers out on my back deck because there is this giant project in my shop!

 

One question for today: Is that 4 part main sheet necessary? It sure seems excessive.

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  • 4 weeks later...

Not a lot to report but this progress on the ladder. I had my son design a piece to accommodate the angle requirement for the through hull ladder. It took a couple of tries to get it right, but it was a great lesson for a 15 year old in the old "measure twice, cut once" (or 3-D print once!) but in the end he did an awesome job. If anyone wants one of these printed let me know. He works cheap.

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He saved up his money to buy this 3-D Printer. If I had one of these when I was 15.........

 

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A test fit last night. Perfect.

 

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I reinforced the transom and made a little bulkhead to support the front of the ladder tube. Not shown is relief in the base corner to prevent water (lets hope that doesn't ever happen).

 

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I consider a good ladder a necessity especially as I grow older. My Sea Pearl has a lousy ladder. I'm in good enough shape to flip myself over the gunnel, but I question my ability if I was soaked. This should make deployment and entry from the water pretty easy. Not to mention us fresh water sailors swim a lot!

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  • 4 weeks later...

Slow but steady progress. A couple of questions followed by a few pictures.

 

1a. Alan included a template for what is a non-pivot tiller. I'm torn as to whether to alter the design because I really like to tip up the tiller to clear the cockpit when entertaining or swimming. Anyone have any ideas? 

 

1b. If I go non-pivot, what is the ply thickness. the template is 6mm and I can't think that is thick enough.

 

2. When you screw in the hinges for the seats, what do you do about the screw holes not rotting from water egress? 

 

You will notice I forgot the notch the butt joints into the stringers. Oops. I cut the butt splice ply and fitted them in carefully and then filleted the underside next to the stringers.  You can see the support for the ladder.

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The basement shop. All who enter think she's never coming out. But I always joke I own a sawzall.........for the house!

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Your posting gave me a good excuse to go visit the CS 17 in my garage.  Like you, I prefer a tiller that pivots up.  It seems right for tacking, to make room when at rest and to sail while standing up and eying the far horizon.  Also gives more options for storage and packing.  My rudder is in the bottom of the boat under a bunch of stuff right now, but the picture shows the rudder head and tiller attached.  The picture is upside down, in that the rudder extends off the top of the picture.  I left the rudder head a bit long, straddled it with the tiller, used a long bolt and wingnut at the rear as the pivot.  The tiller is 3/4 mahogany, horizontal (rescued from my previous build), reinforced with new 3/4 vertical strips along each side, to make a U that fits down over the rudder head.  You can see the blue uphaul cleated to the top of the rudder head and the white downhaul emerging from the rudder.  The arrangement works swell.

 

On the hatch, I drilled a tiny pilot hole for each screw, dipped the screw in 4200 and screwed it in.  Heresy to some, I'm sure, but we'll see.  I used the tiny #4 1/2-inch (I think) flat head stainless wood  screws recommended with the piano hinge, and they are amazingly strong. 

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Mine is similar to those above.  I made both my Lapwing and Spindrift rudder/tillers this way.

 

In both boats I wanted to be able to duck under the tiller when tacking and gybing when moving forward isn't a desirable option.  In my Spindrift this was all the time and in my Lapwing it is when I have a couple others on board.   It also makes them easier to store.  I went so far on my Spindrift as to use a wing nut to make break down for storage easier.  A nylok nut makes keeping the pivot loose enough to function, tight enough not  to be sloppy and the nut doesn't loosen itself more in use.

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