What's being built now?

[Frank Hagan]

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.

Yikes!  I have to finish the bathroom cabinets first, and have another grandson on the way (due to be launched in September).  I doubt I'll get a boat done this year!

[Richard_Creel]

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.

Mine is pretty much at a standstill at the moment.  Working 10 hour days right now, including the weekend.  At work right now. 

[Charlie Jones]

All the deck framing is installed on the Core Sound 20 I'm building. Need to epoxy coat some stuff and I'm ready to begin installing decks.

I would post a picture but I apparently don't know how to do it anymore with this new format.

[Greg Luckett]

Charlie,

Go to the "Additional Options" link at the bottom left of a posting screen.  It is a nice improvement from the last setup.

Greg

[Charlie Jones]

Yeah- I did that. Browsed, inserted a pic url, previewed and - nothing- just the words- no picture

Tried it with three different sixed pictures. Nada.

[Greg Luckett]

Hmmm, I have been posting pics via the same method.  Could it be the size of the pic?  This newest system takes slightly smaller pics than before.  Sorry I cannot help better.

[Frank Hagan]

Yeah- I did that. Browsed, inserted a pic url, previewed and - nothing- just the words- no picture

Tried it with three different sixed pictures. Nada.

It doesn't show the picture on the preview mode, only after you "Post" the message.  I'll see if there's a mod to change that, because several people have asked about it.  I guess the idea is that you don't have to wait to upload the picture just to preview your text, but most people are expecting to see the picture there!

[Charlie Jones]

OK- we'll try it again then

The Tabernacle is not installed- it's just sitting in place. I'll install it after the deck is on.. MUCH simpler to do the deck first.

[Charlie Jones]

Either way works, but there is a bit of camber there, particularly up front, so I like to set the corners a bit proud, then plane that down to the proper shape and then deck.

Seems simpler to me, but as I said, either way works..

[Greg Luckett]

You two are funny sometimes....like two chefs discussing a recipe  ;D.

It took me a little effort to understand the points being made but I finally did.  I use the method Charlie uses when building a new boat, but have used Ray's method doing refurbishing and never thought of using it the way Ray does.  I like having learned a new way of thinking.  Thank you gentlemen!!

[barryhill]

Making her last appearance here in "being built". Moving out from under the tarp and well towards DONE! Thanks to good weather the finish should be good enough for next weekend's run to Iowa.

Bob

[Greg Luckett]

Bob,

She looks like FUN! ;D  Please post a thread about how she sails and the Iowa Mess About.  Is there a thread of her being built?

Thanks,

Greg.

[Brian Walters]

I'm still hacking My way through My Vacationer with my chainsaw and screwgun...

  Brian.

[barryhill]

Thanks Greg,

I was too singleminded and not disciplined enough to maintain a building thread though I do have a few pictures. She was sailed sans paint to the Lake Pepin Messabout and there is a description of the wild ride home in my Sailing Again thread. Here's a shot of her coming out of the house just a couple days previous to that. Will let y'all know how Iowa goes. I grew up in that area but has been many years since I was on Big Spirit.

Bob

[tnzeibig]

Hi,

I've just started putting together the frames for Karl Stambaugh's ketch - Windward 28.

http://www.cmdboats.com/windward28.htm?cart_id=12f1103cb7027e83736ceb9d1e2dd83a

I decided to go with a 'glue and screw' construction to cut down on the need for epoxy - alergic. Unfortunately I'm unable to find anyone else building this boat - so I'm relying on alot of books and whatever I can glean from online sources.

Because the plywood is screwed to a frame, I'll be able to use 3M5200 and rescorcinol ipo epoxy. maybe some titebond III for above the water line interior. Still thinking about how I'm going to finish it.

I'm hoping you all don't mind if I hop in for an occasional question - this seems to be the friendliest boat building forum around. I've already learned so much from many of you, and I keep coming back to see how you are all doing.

Thanks,

Tom Z

[Charlie Jones]

Mind? You're building a boat. This is a forum for boat builders. Why would we mind?

Absolutely nothing wrong with resorcinol in boat construction- some prefer it over epoxy anyway.

Welcome aboard, but we do like pictures ;D

Stambaugh has designed some nice boats

[Greg Luckett]

Charlie speaks for me too; I could not say it any better!

Welcome!!

[tnzeibig]

Thanks!

I don't have any pics of the Windward yet, but here is my 18' Snowshoe Traveler, just finished in May - (called seaview - cause you can watch the waves through the skin )  -  It's dacron heat shrinked skin over mahogany/oak. Plans frame from http://gaboats.com/boats/    We took it to the Adirondacks for 2 wks - 40lbs was great on portages, and it didn't seem to mind the rocky shores.

[Frank Hagan]

Hi,

I've just started putting together the frames for Karl Stambaugh's ketch - Windward 28.

http://www.cmdboats.com/windward28.htm?cart_id=12f1103cb7027e83736ceb9d1e2dd83a

I'll agree with Charlie, Stambaugh's boats are great looking.  Redwing was on my short list to build when I started with this madness ... but I have to say your skin on frame canoe looks incredible!  18' at only 40 pounds ... that's really impressive.

[jaxsailr]

Par your projects sounds neat...  Any pictures?  Also have you listened to Furled sails?  They interviewed John Guzzwell of Trekka fame".  He really likes to build via cold molding and found a glue that works well.

Have a question, do the lumber yards in the south sell live oak?  I have a few of them in my yard and have been thinking about the wonderful wood they could produce.  Mine are old and produce saplings all the time.

Regards,

Niels

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.