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  1. Star... uhm now I like that name a lot. Wish you had spoken up before I launched her. Maybe I will relaunch her?
  2. Here is some completed pix, if I don't compare her to any of the other boats on the list I think she is great... just don't look to closely at her chins, there was no fairing compond used, lots of finish mistakes... oh and construction mistakes... but still I think she will make a great little work boat.
  3. I like coming and going too! A friend said well the new dinghy will be stowed on the bow of Tranquility so how about Inner Piece, with inner on the front half that fits in the rear Piece of the S11N? I should have her launced by tomorrow and will update photo's. I think I will know when I sit in her and row a bit or motor. I've painted her all white so I may be back to "Swan" the last dinghy an 8 foot squarish thing with wheels was called "Duck". Have a great day fellows and thanks for the input.
  4. I really like "Whoops" but it was more like AHhh S#$t! I'll think about Whoops
  5. Well I have to have my baby done by Sunday! The 3 bedroom beach unit that I have taken over is getting rented out for a kings ransom. Unfortunately I don't share in that ransom :cry: but how many people do you know that get a spare bedroom to build S11N that over looks the beach! I have everything completed I set out to get done except for the seats. I have the stringers partially in... but thats it. Will try and finish them at summers end. I can sit on a cushion until then. To make her unsinkable I will tie some fenders on her. I just finished glassing the outside of her. Not glassing the inside. Tomorrow I start painting. I'm using a simple white urethane one part epoxy. I know that cheap stuff but it's what I have. I've resigned myself to her just being a good utility skiff, with the option of making her sail later. So here are the names I can't decide on Swan-son =because she is all white like a swan or at 20 foot away she looks glamorous The Teresa = after a friends mom who is dying of lung cancer, nice thought but I think the boat would make me a little sad. Mini Titanic = friends who were here visiting have named her this and after the assembling the pieces wrong and having to dart in filler pieces I was almost sunk. Molly Brown - she was a socialite on the titanic and was referred to as the unsinkable Molly Brown. I'm leaning towards Molly Brown unless someone suggests something else.
  6. I read a book about a guy who had a nesting dinghy... but it came apart in three sections and was 12 foot in length. It wasn't a sailer, it was for rowing and outboard. It was the plans that I was searching for when I found B&B I can't remeber the book but it was written by a guy who worked for one of the early sail magazines and sailed a Tartan 30, had a kid with partial custody and lived aboard. I think the book is on my boat... and I'm on shore. :roll: I'll try and find the book and the name of the tender. I personally think the that the spindrit would look really sexy in 3 sections and about 13 foot long.
  7. At least now I have a clue to what to try and find. I have a membership in a marine cooperative and for them to get me anything I have to know what I am asking for. Also the hardware store next door has limited stuff. I'm at the end of the cape, so anything not really standard is pretty much an ups order. Thanks Matthew
  8. I was wondering if anyone could recommend the lightest and cheapest fiberglass cloth or rove that I can get by with using epoxy... I just need to make sure that the fir doesn't check. Really want to keep cost and weight down. Any tips, tricks or thoughts on the matter would be greatly appreciated. I almost have the interior all taped and ready to ad the knees, then the keel. I bet if I wasn't working on the floor this would go much better.
  9. I would really like to have the bow forward bulk head completed with the mast color in place for future sailing options, the painter ring installed, and the knees put in also would like to have the entire inside of the hull completed with epoxy. Can paint and get it situated just right later. Can even glass it outside later. I just finished putting on the first layer of gunwale trim. putting on the second and third tomorrow. But you know what really burns me up. cleaning up with viniger after I've cut up my hands with all that wire fastening. yeap that burns. Good night all and thanks again for all the great feed back and support.
  10. It became very obvious that I didn't use 3/16, it was more like 3 7/8. I was trying to figure out how in the heck I made that cut... because I remember drawing it out like is whats on the plan. But now I remember that there was a perfect arch mar on the plywood that looked like a pencil line. I think in the height of cutting I followed that instead of the pencil line. Ok so I didn't take the whole thing apart and measure. I just figured out where center was. Measured up 20 7/8 on the bottom sheet on each side from where the center keel point would be and made a mark, brought the sides into that mark and wired. Wired in the transom to the sides and then the bottom and I'm left with a whole lot that needs to be darted in. After I get the gunwalls glued in I will cut custom darts for each side and epoxy and tape it all in on both sides. Once the epoxy is filleted on the inside I will flip over and remove the excessive wings on the aft. I really think that in 10 days I can have it to the point where I can paint the outer hull outside. I can leave her upside down in the sand until I can deal with the inner hull fittings, or stick her under the neighbors beach house. I just need to be done and out of that room in 10 - 14 days. Graham Thanks for getting back to the list so fast, I appreciate it. All of you helped me just move forward in a solution instead of just giving up. Ray, yes it's Fir and wish I had known about the Hydrotech, would have used that to save from having to glass the fir. Ughh. The fir was about 40ish a sheet.
  11. Grahm asked "did you add the keel measurements to the chine measurements?" I thought I measred up from the straight edge of the plywood but It looks obvious that I didn't. I'm going to take the whole thing apart, and using a straight edge re-measure everything.
  12. I see in your photos that you wired loosly, means that there is an inch or more. My loosly was about 1/2" also Graham is right I inverted the measurements. I'll try to pull things together a bit and see if I can correct this without scraping the project and starting over. I don't have time for that. I have to be out of the location I am in another 10 days. I'm hoping that the nesting bulk head is correct because I don't have anymore wood.
  13. OK I will recheck it I will try to find a square to put on it.
  14. Thanks Jetstream I'll start working on her again after noon time, I'll put more stitches in the keel line and also try some zip ties. I'm already using 16 guage wire, it isn't breaking but pulling through the holes... thats why I had to cut the aft keel line, to take preasure off to get the forward and middle bulk head in place. Yes she is FIR and I bet fir is more rigid than Okaume. Knowing this I may have tried harder to get Okaume... Matthew
  15. No, No One told me they don't snap together... I'm sure someone on this list said something like, "Oh yeah, basically you just velcro it together and use a bit of glue, then go out for crumpets." OK OK that isn't what they said. I'm going to try and use some zip ties, and blocks of wood and screws to stitch the keel together. It's really hard to get in there and wire because I can't actually be in the boat while wiring it together. Last night I almost took it apart, thinking I had measured things wrong. I'm glad to hear that it takes a lot of elbow grease to get it together, because that's what it's taking. However I am really in love with the bow line and the sheer of her. But it seems like the Transom is pretty high off the ground when she is balanced on her middle. Also I'm using Fir so if anyone has ideas about Fir let me know. It might be less pliable than other marine plywood and do I need to use glass weave over the entire boat to keep her from checking? Or will epoxying the entire boat solve that? Thanks Piper, just hearing from someone else who has done this has already made a big difference. Matthew
  16. I've checked my measurements and everything looks good, but it isn't snapping together like I thought it would. I also thought it would sit flat-er on the floor than it wants too. Anyway here is some pix laid out flat and half way put together. Notice I had to un-wire the aft part of the keel line. I couldn't get the nesting bulkhead tied in without doing that. So now I am slowly working the side and bottom panels together and when those are done... I plan bolster the hull and stich the keel back together then fasten in the transom. Remember it's an Spindrift 11 N and I'm doing this by myself with basically no tools... so any advice on how you guys got things together would be much appreciated.
  17. Here is the photo of everything laid out on the deck. I plan to start joining it together after this weekend. Oh boy!
  18. thats a perfect analogy, I understand that. I was just a little concerned that I would be doing something, thinking I was doing it right, then have it come apart and discover I did it wrong. Well off to do some chores and then hopefully start sticking things together.
  19. Is there sort of a guestimate on how much you put in per once? Is there a rule or sugessted guide line? I'm guessing for joining two peices of wood it wouldn't be very thick. Not like doing a fillet. I'm using the silica that came with the Epoxy from Graham & Carla. Thanks again for your reply. Matthew
  20. I'm about ready to cut things out and stick them together. I actually have the middle bulkhead and doublers cut out for the nesting dinghy and was wondering... Do I just wet both sides and stick them together? The bulkhead and doubler, not the two bulkheads. The mixing seems straight forward, pump out 2:1 ratio and mix well. Then do I just wet both pieces and stick them together and clamp? This seems really simple. Matthew
  21. Is there a way to glue a strip of 1/2" wide by 1/4" thick long strips of trim to the interior of the hull that can be removed after the outside of the hull is glassed up? If you used a 1/2" x 1/4" with rounded top corners you could just glue it in place and glass over it later. It should help spring the foam open like the under side of an umbrella. Or if you used them on the outside of the hull they could be laid in such a way that they become part of the keel system. Maybe?
  22. Funny how a little sleep works wonders. Everyones post has pretty much confirmed it too. On the one sheet of plywood that stays 4x8, I'll draw out all that I can there, while killing the dagger board, concentrating on nesting bulk head and all the doublers and also getting the the the center board trunk to all dry fit. I'll cut the one sheet down to 4x4 and tack it in place via support strips and just roughly draw everything out. When the epoxy comes, I'll butt joint it into place, make final drawing and measuring and then my cuts. Grahm, thanks for letting me know when the epoxy is coming! In my head I had it all worked up that I couldn't really do anything until the epoxy comes. This way I should be busy for the better part of a day. thanks again Guys!!! Matthew
  23. I was interested OH well next time I will catch them sooner
  24. I need to start laying out and cutting my boat out ASAP, or rather in the next week. I have the rest of this month to work on it and some of April. I'm loosing time. I need to make a butt joint to form two 12 foot sheets for the S11N. The only problem is Grahm and Carla are waiting for a shipment of Epoxy. The epoxy next door at the hardware store is 4 times the amount that B&B charges... and the tape isn't whats specified. I have regular fiber glass and tape can I make the butt joint with that or... The other option is to cut the one piece into the 4 foot section and use some scrap wood and some screws to fasten the 4 foot wood section to the 8 foot sheet making the 12 foot length so I can draw out my cuts and then butt joint it when the epoxy gets here, and then make the shape cuts then. I'm woried of just falling so behind that I won't have time to complete my dinghy in time. Also there is mention of the scarf technique but no diagram for it. does any one have a link for that technique or should it just be avoided?
  25. First, Ray I now have jig envy. Especially after checking out your site. Secondly I wonder if using a masonite type of board with glass wouldn't be better than foam? Or there be some way to stiffen the foam up a bit like a spayed on or thinly brushed on coating of epoxy with no glass. I really hope you figure out a viable way to do this because I think it has greater market appeal and would just be neat option. I just started laying out the pencil markings on my plywood tonight so... I feel for you.
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