CCTXF20
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I added 2 1/2” to the stringers to raise the sole well above the DWL. Self bailing and raw water wash down are a must for the way I will be using the boat. Primarily wade fishing the Upper and Lower Laguna Madre systems.
Thank you Jeff and Reid for your help and attention to detail with my plywood order. Thank you Jacques for the design, we met several years ago in Port Aransas at the plywooden boat festival. Somewhere I was a picture of you and I with my Indian River Skiff - “Forever Young” Thank you to all the builders in the forums for the support, advice and experiences.
Have a blessed Easter.
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Looking good Marshall.
Tom
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Restored Mirror Dinghy, Bought OD18 built by CL, Westlawn School of Yacht Design courses. LT US Navy 1970-1978
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Greetings Matthew...trying to get a piece of land in Corpus Christi....maybe we can meet someday
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Just loading up pictures for now. I’ll edit the post with explanations and possibly rotating the images.
Stitched the side panels to the bottom panel and rolling back into the garage for the evening.
Interior of the transom sanded before stitching in.
Learned a big lesson from my first build. Round the edge of the clamp board lamination, fillet and glassed with 12oz biax tape prior to installation. A pain to do upside down on your back after it’s installed. Quarter round trim molding cut in 3/4” sections work wonderful under the zip tie stitch to maintain a proper gap. 1/2” pvc is just to large and unruly trying to establish a nice consistent glue gap.
Tool of the week. A pull saw! Perfect for easily trimming the small “humps” in my skill saw cut and making for a consistent seam gap in the chine.
Side panels place on the jig for the first time. If this won’t get you addicted, then sanding and fairing definitely will not.
Drilling holes through the pieces to be laminated and using dowels for alignment is the only way to go! I did this with the stringers as well.
Worked the transom and clamp board transition all wet on wet prior to installation.
Side panels about to be spliced together. Only 12oz biax tape. Wet out the Okume edges with neat epoxy while leaving a 3/8” gap between the seems. Follow up with wood flour thickened epoxy and push everything together making sure the thickened epoxy squeezes out from the seems. Wet out out the biax tape with neat epoxy over the seem. This seems just as strong if not stronger than wooden butt blocks and less fairing as the butt block left a small flat area on my first build, that needed to be faired out with additional quick fair. Another lesson learned.
Side panel plotting and drawing of chine and shear lines.
That’s 24’ of beautiful Okume!
No wooden butt blocks in the bottom panel either. Turned out super strong. I was worried about having to trying to put a temporary frame to lift and flip the panel onto the jig along with help. Nope I was able to just lift, flip and lay over the assembled bottom panel over the jig myself. Never made a sound. The panel is very solid AND I won’t be dealing with trying to get 1708 to lay down around butt blocks. Plywood and lumber cart, Not much shop space. Everything has to be organized and on rollers. Plotting out bottom panels. 4 stringers clamped together and shaped. I added 2 1/2” to make the boat self bailing.
Last edited by Matthew Anderson on Thu Apr 15, 2021 12:33 am, edited 13 times in total.
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Looking good Matt. I have fond memories of these times you’re spending. Keep the pics coming
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Nice progress Matt!!! Jeff
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I love the qtr rnd trick! Thanks for sharing! Fillet on the transom clamp looks amazing too.
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I love the plywood storage, I may need to copy that. Also, that grill looks like it would make a great epoxy mixing station!
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Hope it is just the pictures and my old eyes but the side panels and bottom sure look like there is a hook
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I see what you see, but everything pulled up very nicely.
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