Another 11N Meets Mister Saw

[JetStream]

About time!

[John Turpin]

Awesome progress. I can even make out your oversize bolt holes all filleted and ready for bolts. I made an absolute mess out of my saw cut. How did yours go?

[Garry]

Congratulations! For some reason, I think of hatching an egg :?

[rlchenry]

NICE JOB!!

The first two saw strokes are tough, aren't they?

[Greg Luckett]

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Every time I see the saw job on the nesting Spindrift I think of eggs too....Humpty Dumpty anyway.

[JetStream]

How did yours go?

It was scary. My handsaw doesn't have enough set and wanders a little. As it turned out, there was a very slight chaffing in a few areas but all cleaned up with the finish sander. Right now I'm trying to decide on whether to rout a 1/8" radius or a 3/16" radius on the assembled ends, before I tape the outsides. I still have a lot of sanding to do as I used biax at the bulkhead (one layer across the bottom and two layers near the top) instead of 3 layers of cloth. The biax has great strength but it doesn't finish as nicely as the cloth. When I put in the bow reinforcement block, I used a piece of biax, covered with one layer of cloth and that surface came out nice.

[Garry]

I put a generous radius on the mating surfaces to make sure the glass would lie fair. Afterwards, I clamped the two surfaces together with a piece of plywood between. Then I filled the radiused edges up to the plywood (protected with plastic) to get a square edge on both. Then I radiused those edges slightly before painting.

This gives a tight seam and looks good when assembled. I doubt it really makes a lot of difference to the water flow though.

[JetStream]

And did you have a momentary occurence of utter horror that you might have located the bulkheads off a little so thatthe boats would not nest once cut?

I was so certain that it had to be wrong that I set up the level and laser all over again so I could measure the midship bulkheads and the bow bulkhead for vertical before I cut it. Somehow they magically came out vertical through no fault or merit of mine.

I put a generous radius on the mating surfaces to make sure the glass would lie fair. Afterwards, I clamped the two surfaces together with a piece of plywood between. Then I filled the radiused edges up to the plywood (protected with plastic) to get a square edge on both. Then I radiused those edges slightly before painting.

Garry-

That is a superb idea. I thank you for that and think I will do it just like you said.

The first two saw strokes are tough, aren't they?

The first several are like "All the time to get this far and then wreck the whole thing in 5 minutes!!" I spent a lot of time on the laminated gunwales (spruce, mahogany ash) and I could just see the whole thing turning into a pile of scrap materials. Thank you all for the support!!

[Hirilonde]

I couldn't decide if I was excited to cut mine in half or horrified.

She looks good! You must have done something right, she nests just fine :wink:

Now its time to come up with some clever answers for when people ask why you cut it in half. Here are a couple I used:

"She wouldn't fit easily in the shop for the rest of the work so I cut her into workable size pieces."

"I didn't like how she came out, so I am cutting her up to fit in the dumpster."

When I made the cleats for my center seat I found they interfered with nesting. I had to cut a notch in each of them in the aft section shaped to fit the aft portion of the forward half. Has anyone else encountered this?

[PinoyPiper]

When I made the cleats for my center seat I found they interfered with nesting. I had to cut a notch in each of them in the aft section shaped to fit the aft portion of the forward half. Has anyone else encountered this?

Yep, did that too. the cleats on mine has a wedge like shape.