Cedarock's HM19

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I managed to work a few hours during the evenings towards the end of the week and fiberglassed more along the bottom at the stringers and chine. I also glued frame f and the motorwell sides to the bottom. And since I planned on spending all of today on the boat, it is rainy and cold. I worked a little inside, cutting frame c and cutting and glueing the clamping boards to the transom.

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chicagoross wrote: I really think we'll see a lot more of HM's and HMD's being built, they have a lot of basic creature comforts for the amount of $4/gallon gas that they burn...
I couldn't agree with you more. A beautiful 19' boat that is comfortably pushed with a 70hp engine is very much underrated in this world (maybe former world) of deep v's with twin 200hp engines.

Keep up the great work. I love the looks of the HM19.

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Thanks fishingdan! You all are right. Personally, I wouldn't be able to afford to put gas in a 200hp boat many times through the year with today's gas prices.

I think that the hm's are eye-catching, (caught my eye :D ) and the low hp requirements will make it very functional for me. Can't wait to see it develop. But, I think that I have a problem....I like and could find a purpose for any of designs. I confess, I am a boataholic! :lol:

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Another weekend and another weekend of rain. This weather is starting to irritate me! :x I hung some tarps and installed the transom and frame C. Maybe, I can finish with the taping of the frames and around the transom during the week.


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I have been piddlin' with the taping this week and today I cut a 2 1/8" hole in the bottom of the transom and filled with epoxy putty for a drain. While I had the hole saw out, I cut an oval hole in the bottom to fill and use for a transducer mount. Without thinking, I used the same putty mixture of wood flour and epoxy to fill the transducer hole laying some bits of biaxial tape in it as it filled. I wonder if the wood flour will create any air pockets that will hinder the operations of the transducer. :doh: The mixture was on the thin side...thinner than my fillet mixture. As soon as I finished, I started thinking about others using glass strands and epoxy and can't recall anyone ever using wood flour. Think I am safe or should I cut it back out and re-do?
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After it sets up, shine a light through it. Air pockets should show up. 8)
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Thanks gk...good idea! I am optimistically thinking that it should be okay but I will give it the ole light test.

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Cedarock, IMHO this is non-critical. You've got a planing hull, the transom will always be in the water (unlike my HMD); if it turns out that the transducer doesn't work well through the area you glassed for it, you can always hang a transom transducer there. No worry!

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Thanks and you are right Chicagoross. I am not too worried but I think it will shoot through the concoction that I made and if not, I will send her over the back!

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Made some progress this weekend! Yesterday, I finished the taping and started installing the perch for the tank. I am going to glue neoprene to the strips with 5200. The strips are two layers of 3/8" ply glued together with stainless bolts through the top layer.
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I had already made up my mind that I would not try to wrestle with the hull panels in one piece, so I cut them out this morning and started installing. BTW, the nesting drawing has the bottom side panels labeled top panels. If I was not on my game, I would have been out there trying to make the top panels fit on the bottom. :lol: Anyway, I got all of the pieces secured to the frames and found that I was going to have a gap at the bow. Fortunately, I decided to install the panels in pieces because I was able to go back and put a small gap at each seam which helped lesson the gap in the bow. I still had a 5/8" gap. I glued a strip of plywood in there and will round it off with putty. It seems that I recall reading about Uncle Ralph having a similiar problem.

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And here she is from above...it is really starting to grow now! :)


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