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.
Cedarock's HM19
- fishingdan
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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.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...
Keep up the great work. I love the looks of the HM19.
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 ) 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!
I think that the hm's are eye-catching, (caught my eye ) 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!
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. 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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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.
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. 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.
And here she is from above...it is really starting to grow now!
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. 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.
And here she is from above...it is really starting to grow now!
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