What's being built now?

[Greg Luckett]

I am just wondering what we are all busy building now.  Steve is doing a Diva, Gregg a Weekender, etc.  I know there are a bunch more but we are scattered about in the forum.  This thread could give us a point to collect the current projects on one thread. 

I am building a Spindrift 12, slowly but surely, and a Diva next on the list.

Greg

[lewisboats]

I persist in slowly getting my Guppy together...tho I am considering knocking together a small sailing scow to use for the rest of the summer.

Steve (Lewis)

[Norman Colter]

I'm sanding away on my Princess 22. Paint is here, resisting the urge until the surface is exactly the way I want it.

Norm

[Remod]

I am currently rebuilding a Glen_L 12, originally built in 1976!

http://www.messing-about.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=random&cat=0&pos=-17

http://www.messing-about.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=random&cat=0&pos=-16

[Greg Luckett]

I am currently rebuilding a Glen_L 12, originally built in 1976!

http://www.messing-about.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=random&cat=0&pos=-17

http://www.messing-about.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=random&cat=0&pos=-16

It would be fun to see how it stacks up against a Spindrift 12.  Planning on being at any Mess Abouts next year?

[Greg Luckett]

I just found Norm's thread on keel pouring. 

Maybe we could/should include links to the appropriate threads as Remod and Steve have done?  Then we could post at those threads any questions that might come up and just keep this thread as a list of what we are all building?

Thanks 

[Remod]

The main reason I linked to the pics,,,is I had no idea how to insert thumbnails or a decent size pic! 

I'd really like to make some Southeast or Chessie Messabouts, and am hoping to make the Glen_L Gathering too!

[Ken_Potts]

Evoen though I've got it sailing now I'm building a CS17 (lots left to do).

[ScottWidmier]

I have been enjoying tweeking my Bateau.com C12 called Little Gem.  Of course, I have a plastic 26' boat and another 12' boat of my own design to go sailing in when the urge hits. Incredible how much that does for patience when working on a third boat.  Took Little Gem out for a test sail with a little bit of trepidation due to moving the mast forward by 16" and switching to a gaff cat rig and I didn't know what this meant for balance.  It turned out that I got everything right and the boat balances so perfectly that I can let the tiller go when sailing into the wind and the boat tracks straight ahead.  After the test sail I am making a beefier mast though.  The pictures below are from a four page gallering of images detailing the life of this boat: http://forums.bateau2.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=419

[lewisboats]

I went out this morning and aquired new spar materials (mast, sprit, boom) for a used sail I aquired. I plan on using this rig on the ScoutCanu but I will have to redo the step and partner for the larger mast. I am using fir railing as the mast instead of spruce or pine closet rod which I had for the other crappy flat polytarp sail. If this is too flexible I'll do up something else until I get it right. PolySail has an interesting little snippet on a PLYWOOD mast that sounds intriguing. Storer also mentions a square thinwalled mast on one of his pages...sounds like something I might check in to.

Steve

[Richard_Creel]

I'm working on a Stevenson Mini-Cup.

[barryhill]

Finished the first coat of paint and varnish on my Teal today. Picked up some paint chips for the next boat when I bought paint!

Bob

[Greg Luckett]

Scott, that Bateau boat is really nice looking and the sail looks just right for her.   How does she sail?

[ScottWidmier]

That is the 12' boat that sailed circles around Craig's Vacationer in light wind!  Annoyed the h** out of him!  ;D  A better comparisons comes from sunfish I have sailed with both pre and post modifications.  In both cases she proved to be at parity with a sunfish despite being 2' shorter  and a lot more slender  8) .  I also was able to sail closer to the wind.  The only way the sunfish could beat me was with its quicker acceleration in puffs. 

Oh, this may surprise those of you who know me  : but, other than the hull shape, this boat was completely modified from the start.  As planned, the C12 might be even faster with a cat marconi rig.

[lewisboats]

Nice colors Bob...but then I have always been partial to forest green. Don't leave her in the sun bottom up tho...it will soften the epoxy underneath which might get gouged or something.

Steve

[PAR]

I'm just finishing up some detail work on a 15' round bilge planning runabout. The hull is Ashcroft method with two layers of 1/8" mahogany plywood, a live oak plank keel, two southern yellow bilge stringers and some 1/2" mahogany plywood boxes aft, oak and ply furniture at the helm (bench seat), with a 1/4" mahogany deck over fur longitudinal stringers and live oak rubs complete the structure.

I'm making a wrap around windshield (glass from a VW), finalizing the electric, steering and other controls. Power is a 20 HP short shaft, but jets and timing will make it a 30 HP.

No paint anywhere, except the aft end of the bilge, where I think some loose gear and control cables could chaff planking. No 'glass anywhere except under the painted area near the transom, minimal epoxy, most of the adhesive work was with plastic resin and resorcinol between the planking.

Dave Geer didn't speak very kindly of this method in his book, "Elements of Boat Strength", having "nothing to recommend" in regard to this technique. I have a few things to recommend about it, the biggest is the fact you can plank the whole hull shell thickness in one pass. Typical molded hulls require each layer go down before the next, but since the Ashcroft planks run in the same direction, overlapping each seam, you can apply all layers at the same time. This is a fast way to mold a hull. I agree with Dave, that it isn't quite as strong as double diagonal, but it's marginal, particularly if you watch the grain as the planks go down, incorporating some "cross grain" transition as you go. With thin plywood planking (like I've used), it's a non-issue. Repair is also much easier on an Ashcroft hull, where you can set a router to the exterior planking thickness and plow out damage, without exposing perpendicular seams from the lower layer (which is what happens on diagonal planking repairs).

Both diagonal molding and Ashcroft method, produce very light and strong hulls, with few hull form shape limitations. This hull is around 300 pounds, with 25% of it tied up in the transom and solid mahogany dashboard. As a result a 20 HP outboard can push this critter to high 20's and 30 HP will approach 35 knots, while sipping fuel at a leisurely rate.

[Steve Day]

Greg,

I am building a Diva 2. (2 person version.)

I can't believe you are finally started on the Spindrift.   That is a cool thing.

All we have to do is get Frank started on his.

Steve

[Greg Luckett]

The Belfast Boat Show, Ray?  I hope you will bring back lots of pictures to share  .

Need someone to carry your bags?  I work cheap, just pay my way and feed me.... : ;D

[P Doug (WA)]

Still working on my mini-cup.  I'm striving for the record for the longest time to build one.  My only excuse this summer is I had two surgeries in May (back related).  Doing great though and went out the other day and started cleaning my garage and getting ready to do something.  Richard_Creel please keep posting progress.  This is the last picture I took. I'm a little further than this but not much.

[Greg Luckett]

It is darn hard to get anything done when the back is not right, despite the willingness of the spirit.  I hope you heal up well and soon.

Frank and I have been competing for who can take the longest to build a Sprindrift, but I think he will win this year as my boat shed and yard are done and my Spindrift building is underway again.