Boat Builder Central

OK. An update. I have not addressed the terrible corner welds. But I did paint the seams with epoxy resin and the put the EZ-fillets down to attach the frames to the side and the bottom https://i.ibb.co/10Rd0gD/IMG-1066.jpg https://i.ibb.co/Hnd2KLs/IMG-1065.jpg No fiberglass on those so less to go w...

OK. Two more seams. Again - not exactly runaway successes: https://i.ibb.co/L1SJ77d/IMG-0856.jpg https://i.ibb.co/xLJh0VC/IMG-0859.jpg https://i.ibb.co/6XHq0X1/IMG-0858.jpg https://i.ibb.co/ydpFtmR/IMG-0863.jpg https://i.ibb.co/DWL6YWm/IMG-0865.jpg https://i.ibb.co/3rhqxR3/IMG-0866.jpg This time I u...

OK. I went ahead and decided to do the inside seams first with the boat right side up. That’s what the building instructions said so I decided to go with them. My process was as follows: - I used the JB Weld five minute quick setting epoxy between the zip ties to tack weld the wood - Twenty minutes ...

OK, I think I got it. I love the idea of putting packing tape under the seams so the epoxy doesn’t drip through the seams. I take “Yes to neat epoxy” to mean that I should paint the bottom with epoxy before starting to tack weld the seams. One important question - how do I know if the boat is “fair”...

This is a picture that shows two troubling trends:

1. My man-boob sweat during a Texas summer, and
2. The fact that my middle frames are hovering over the bottom of the boat

I’m hoping that at least one of these problems can be solved with epoxy and tape.

So there are a couple gaps here and there but that’s why God created epoxy and wood flour, right? https://i.ibb.co/z45RsjC/IMG-0795.jpg https://i.ibb.co/gmZXHRB/IMG-0793.jpg https://i.ibb.co/RD84SJz/IMG-0792.jpg https://i.ibb.co/sJ9vW8b/IMG-0790.jpg https://i.ibb.co/cNc5jhx/IMG-0789.jpg So next step...

Progress! I have taken everyone’s advice and ignored the Devlin book and pressed on with the plans. I have now ziptied everything together. As people warned, when I try to go back and fit the frames back into the boat at the exact distances specified in the plans they don’t always fit exactly where ...

… also, I decided that my transom came pre-notched for the tiller since it has a 3” “valley” as compared to a straight arc. Reid - is that true? If not, I’ll have to cut it already attached to the rest of the boat…

OK. Despite a lot of open questions, I plunged ahead. I didn’t bevel any edges, i just went ahead and ziptied the hull halves together. Then I drilled holes in the sides and the transoms (the bulder’s notes say 4” apart and the Sitch and Glue 101 tutorial says 10” apart so i split the difference) an...

Also - do I bevel the edges before I ziptie them together so that they meet in a perfect 45 degree angle? That’s in the Devlin book but nowhere in the building notes and I have no idea how I’d do that.