Pamet FS14
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 3:20 pm
After retiring and building a shop in our back yard, this is the first boat that we will build.
I am a retired science teacher and have done some building but I am not a woodworker. I have almost no skills but now I have a shop and some tools.
We live in Putney, Vermont.
Thank you, in advance, for your analyses and advice.
The FS14 will be assembled of CNC materials.
Up to this point things have gone well. The strongback assembly was simple and all the frames are at the prescribed distances from the fore ends of the strongbacks. The positioning of the stringers appears to be pretty good to my eye. We screwed cleats to the sides of the bow mold and ran screws from the aft side of the bow frame into those cleats to hold the bow mold in place. I had difficulty holding the bow frame and bow mold in place so I affixed a strap along the line for the bottom of the seat to hold the weight of the assembly while I screwed it to the strongbacks. Screwing it to the strongbacks did not seem like the right thing to do, but that is how I interpreted the instructions.
WAS SCREWING THE BOW FRAME TO THE STRONGBACKS THE WRONG THING TO DO?
Here is a pic of the board I used to support the bow frame. Moving aftward, there appeared to be nothing noteworthy about the frames so I did not include any specific photos until the transom.
We attached cleats to the stringers and screwed through the transom frame into those cleats. That assembly seemed unsteady so I stood boards on the floor and clamped them to the stringers. The aft ends of the stringers are slightly shorter than the distance from the bottom of the transom to the motor mount board. As such, they could not be flush on both the bottom and the top. I chose to fix the stringers so they were flush with the bottom of the transom. WAS THIS THE WRONG THING TO DO?
Here is a pic that shows the assemblage so far, as seen from the transom. Here is a gratuitous pic of the highlight of the entire project. For someone as ignorant to the skills, steps, and materials the builders threads are a wonderful resource. I have spent a lot of time trying to understand the steps and to follow the advice of the group. Thank You!
I am a retired science teacher and have done some building but I am not a woodworker. I have almost no skills but now I have a shop and some tools.
We live in Putney, Vermont.
Thank you, in advance, for your analyses and advice.
The FS14 will be assembled of CNC materials.
Up to this point things have gone well. The strongback assembly was simple and all the frames are at the prescribed distances from the fore ends of the strongbacks. The positioning of the stringers appears to be pretty good to my eye. We screwed cleats to the sides of the bow mold and ran screws from the aft side of the bow frame into those cleats to hold the bow mold in place. I had difficulty holding the bow frame and bow mold in place so I affixed a strap along the line for the bottom of the seat to hold the weight of the assembly while I screwed it to the strongbacks. Screwing it to the strongbacks did not seem like the right thing to do, but that is how I interpreted the instructions.
WAS SCREWING THE BOW FRAME TO THE STRONGBACKS THE WRONG THING TO DO?
Here is a pic of the board I used to support the bow frame. Moving aftward, there appeared to be nothing noteworthy about the frames so I did not include any specific photos until the transom.
We attached cleats to the stringers and screwed through the transom frame into those cleats. That assembly seemed unsteady so I stood boards on the floor and clamped them to the stringers. The aft ends of the stringers are slightly shorter than the distance from the bottom of the transom to the motor mount board. As such, they could not be flush on both the bottom and the top. I chose to fix the stringers so they were flush with the bottom of the transom. WAS THIS THE WRONG THING TO DO?
Here is a pic that shows the assemblage so far, as seen from the transom. Here is a gratuitous pic of the highlight of the entire project. For someone as ignorant to the skills, steps, and materials the builders threads are a wonderful resource. I have spent a lot of time trying to understand the steps and to follow the advice of the group. Thank You!