Moccasin 2 #150

[Christopher M-K]

Hello, everyone.

Moccasin 2 #150 is underway! The panels have been cut out and stitched together, and the breasthooks are in place. The next step is to glue the scarfs on the inwales and gunwales (I

[Randy C.]

Ditto on all that can be learned from this site. I've learned a lot from reading and received a lot of help from the people on here. My first attempt at building a boat is a CS17, so far so good. Good luck.

Also, your helper has a pretty intense look, very determined!!

[kentsu]

Hi Christopher,

we are working on similar projects, I am a little behind, hope to get some progress during the weekend .

Good luck with the building!

And do send pictures of how your Moccasin project is developing.

I also have a dream to build a CS, in the future, hopefully soon . Hope that the Moccasin building will give some useful experience wich will be useful when the CS project will come true.

Best regards

Kenneth

[Christopher M-K]

Thanks for the welcome, Randy and Kenneth.

Randy -- yes, my daughter is really into helping with the boat so far. I am very happy about that. It does take a little imagination to find things for her to contribute sometimes. But the threading the cable ties was an easy one.

Kenneth -- it is great to have some company! If you haven't started stitching up the hull yet, here is one thing I learned: when the plans say to take your time, and to not worry about gaps at the start, listen to what they say. When I started putting stitches in the sides, I was kind of anxious about the gap between the side and the bottom piece. After trying to get the panels cut as precisely as I could, that 3/8" gap looked like a yawning chasm. So I pushed on the wood and pulled on the stitches to close it, and sure enough, got two little cracks in the outer lamination for my trouble -- one along the top of the plywood block I had screwed there to stop a crack from developing, and one along the bottom. As I went along, though, I discovered that as I put in more stitches towards the butt join, the gap towards the bow became much easier to close up. So when I did the other end of the boat, I just tried to ignore the gap for the first eight inches or so, and then as I continued to stitch, would occasionally go back and snug up those earlier stitches.  By the time I was finished with the side stitches, the gap was gone, and there were no cracks.   

[Christopher M-K]

Well, things had been going well, until I pulled off the blocks I used to do the butt join and saw this