Re: Point Comfort 23
Posted by MarkR on
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The whole boat is specified by Doug Hyland in Imperial units. Of course, all of our marine ply is metric. So...
On to the planking of the forward section of the bottom. Lots of twist in this area, so the panels get more narrow as they go forward. After the initial 4' - 6mm section, the panels dropped to 24", then 12", 9" and eventually only about 7". Each plank of the first layer was dry fitted until the complete forefoot had one layer of 6mm ply.
There is one point where the bottom planking goes from overlapping the side planking to butting into it. It made that plank a little harder to fit. But just a little patience and it turned out pretty well.
The result is a first glimpse of the beautiful final shape of the forefoot of the boat. Really nice!
After numbering each panel and providing registration marks from one panel to the next, we removed all of these to get ready for gluing the first layer to the keelson, chine and inner stem.
This is the sixth panel from the stern, Starboard side. This building sequence is a slight departure from the designer's instructions which had the two layers going on at the same time. Since I'm doing this part of the build solo, I elected to do the first layer completely, before even cutting and fitting the second layer. Simple and less stressful.
URL: http://riverswest-forums.266.s1.nabble.com/Point-Comfort-23-tp527p551.html
The whole boat is specified by Doug Hyland in Imperial units. Of course, all of our marine ply is metric. So...
On to the planking of the forward section of the bottom. Lots of twist in this area, so the panels get more narrow as they go forward. After the initial 4' - 6mm section, the panels dropped to 24", then 12", 9" and eventually only about 7". Each plank of the first layer was dry fitted until the complete forefoot had one layer of 6mm ply.
There is one point where the bottom planking goes from overlapping the side planking to butting into it. It made that plank a little harder to fit. But just a little patience and it turned out pretty well.
The result is a first glimpse of the beautiful final shape of the forefoot of the boat. Really nice!
After numbering each panel and providing registration marks from one panel to the next, we removed all of these to get ready for gluing the first layer to the keelson, chine and inner stem.
This is the sixth panel from the stern, Starboard side. This building sequence is a slight departure from the designer's instructions which had the two layers going on at the same time. Since I'm doing this part of the build solo, I elected to do the first layer completely, before even cutting and fitting the second layer. Simple and less stressful.
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