No Work for a While on Joe
My wife and I are taking 6 or 7 weeks for some travel we’ve put off because of COVID realities. Here are some photos of where I’m leaving Joe “hanging”:
The outside is done (except to finish the transom.) The coamings are installed and fill in the boat’s profile. (The side decks are cut out and dry-fit for later installation.)
This is all that I have left from that huge roll of fiberglass cloth I’ve been carrying around since 1968. I decided, for nostalgic sake, that I will put some fiberglass tape on the top and bottom and make my leftover cloth cover the rest of the transom’ back side through some strategic cutting and placing. ?
I cut the dash to fit into the coamings and provide seven inches of height for the steering hub and gauges (the local marina will install them along with the motor when I get things done sufficiently.) The inside visible surface of the dash is B&B wood (I really like the quality of the southern white pine used by B&B and it’s grain patterns) and the reinforcement wood behind it (seen below) is from Lowe’s.
The dash and coamings will be bright finished.
I made the ends of the dash taper but wondered whether I should make it a bit “thinner” and straight across on the bottom, as shown below by the blue tape (I know, kind of a minor detail... but, hey, it’s what I’m gonna be looking at a lot while using the boat):
My wife suggested that being cut straight across at the tape line makes it look like it’s “just a board” and the shape I put in makes it seem to be more like it was intended to be the boat’s dash. I’ll go with that opinion. ?
Also this week, I cut and fit the support pieces for the motor well. The piece with a dado is also matching B&B wood and will be bright finished.
The inside of the motor well and transom will be white.
Trivia... I bought a DeWalt sander for my CS15 build. The Wheezer, the 9th grade girl across the street building a Spindrift 10, has a cordless DeWalt sander. I got “jealous” of it and bought one for myself. My younger son can now use my corded sander to work on his canoe-build.
See? I really NEEDED the cordless... right? ?
