Nautical fabrication

[y'sguy]

That's turning out beautiful and I am not surprised. you do stellar work. I did not it expect it to be painted though. Still, looks fantastic.

 

[royce]

That's turning out beautiful and I am not surprised. you do stellar work. I did not it expect it to be painted though. Still, looks fantastic.

Thank you Sir

Royce

 

[royce]

Got a coat of color on the insides today, two more coats and the paint will be done on the hull.

Royce

 

[Bears Fan]

Looks amazing Royce

 

[LXCam]

Stellar work as always Royce. And happy Father’s Day bud.

 

[royce]

Looks amazing Royce

Thanks Bears

Royce

 

[royce]

Stellar work as always Royce. And happy Father’s Day bud.

Thanks Cam,
And happy father's day to you

Royce

 

[royce]

Just be glad you don’t have a Newfound dog in your shop. The hair is enough to become a structural component in the epoxy

Hey Riv,
I made sure to color coordinate the boat with the pup!
Last coat of paint on the interior and not a moment too soon.

Royce

 

[RivennHewn]

Hey Riv,
I made sure to color coordinate the boat with the pup!
Last coat of paint on the interior and not a moment too soon.

Royce

You’ve got a good eye for color matching too!

Good looking pup!

 

[royce]

Got the rudder hardware, transom cap, bilge pump, bow cleat and chocks bedded and fastened today.
Next up, floorboards and thwarts.
Also took delivery of the sails, now if I only had some spars to hang them from!

Royce

 

[PugetDude]

Nice woodwork for a steel fabricator...

 

[royce]

Nice woodwork for a steel fabricator...

Thanks Puget

Royce

 

[royce]

Cut a couple rub strakes out of polyethylene today.

Royce

 

[royce]

Flopped the boat downside up for the last time, to fasten the bilge drains, rub strakes and cover loops.

Royce

 

[royce]

Thwarts and floorboards in, oarlock sockets glued in, centerboard and hinge pin in.
I think she's ready to row, maybe tomorrow.

Royce

 

[RivennHewn]

Thwarts and floorboards in, oarlock sockets glued in, centerboard and hinge pin in.
I think she's ready to row, maybe tomorrow.

Royce

You too excited to sleep?

 

[royce]

You too excited to sleep?

**** Howdy Riv, it's been a long time coming and can't hardly wait.

Royce

 

[royce]

Well then, got her wet today and I am quite pleased.

Royce

 

[jhn9840]

Looks great sitting in the water Royce.

jhn9840
John

 

[Firstram]

Beautiful!

 

[stinkity stoink]

Victory!!

 

[royce]

Thanks
John
Firstram
Stinkity

 

[LXCam]

Well she looks the part - very cool, how'd she row?.

 

[MadeByMiller]

Congratulations! I'm convinced there's nothing that you can't build - and in spectacular fashion at that.

 

[royce]

Well she looks the part - very cool, how'd she row?.

Thanks Cam,
It out performs all expectations, fantastic design.
Tracks well, yet turns with ease.
At an easy pace on the oars, with 2 people, a mutt and day gear, it runs between 2.5 and 3 MPH.

Royce

 

[royce]

Congratulations! I'm convinced there's nothing that you can't build - and in spectacular fashion at that.

Very kind words
Thanks a bunch

Royce

 

[Bears Fan]

Beautiful

 

[royce]

Beautiful

Thanks Bears,
I don't know how it gets any better than spending time with my best friend of 44 years and a fine pup, in a great boat.

 

[royce]

Got started on the spars

Royce

 

[WoodsTruck]

Got started on the spars

Royce

I'm interested to see how these are built.

 

[Firstram]

This is one of my favorite methods of joining beveled parts, it's the only way to go. Self aligning, extra glue surface, super easy to hit your dimensions, only one angle to deal with and it makes tapered columns a breeze! Curious about the overhang, I have always run the dado deep enough for the parts to corner up. I guess if you're rounding it over this method would leave a full width glue joint and allow you to plane only one board (competing grain directions).

Beautiful work, as always!

 

[WoodsTruck]

I was looking for Royce's build page for the lathe he was going to chuck this up in to spin it round and smooth.

 

[Firstram]

I was looking for Royce's build page for the lathe he was going to chuck this up in to spin it round and smooth.

He’s building it now, you will see it Monday!

 

[royce]

This is one of my favorite methods of joining beveled parts, it's the only way to go. Self aligning, extra glue surface, super easy to hit your dimensions, only one angle to deal with and it makes tapered columns a breeze! Curious about the overhang, I have always run the dado deep enough for the parts to corner up. I guess if you're rounding it over this method would leave a full width glue joint and allow you to plane only one board (competing grain directions).

Beautiful work, as always!

Thanks Firstram,
I opted to cut both sides of the birdsmouths at 45 degrees for simplicity of saw set up.
To get the corners to align, I would have had to have two different miter angles, depth and fence settings to make the joint.
Like you wrote, the corners will be gone when shaped round.
This is a first for me, building hollow spars, so I don't know much about it.

Royce

 

[royce]

I was looking for Royce's build page for the lathe he was going to chuck this up in to spin it round and smooth.

I do have a lathe, but would need to make a tailstock for these long spars.
Not sure yet, if I'll go that route or not.

Royce

 

[Firstram]

Thanks Firstram,
I opted to cut both sides of the birdsmouths at 45 degrees for simplicity of saw set up.
To get the corners to align, I would have had to have two different miter angles, depth and fence settings to make the joint.
Like you wrote, the corners will be gone when shaped round.

The beauty of this method is you square cut all of your parts to the visible size and then dado one side to accept the other at whatever finished angle you need. You can set the dado deeper to make the outside line up but you do lose glue surface. Only beveling one side is needed regardless the number of sides or depth of the notch. What you have is probably the strongest end result possible after you plane it round!

This is a first for me, building hollow spars, so I don't know much about it.

Royce

A lifetime of experience always comes into play, steel and wood aren't that different. My dad always told me, a carpenter makes a better welder than a welder makes a carpenter because glue wont fill a gap. I disagree, either you get it or you don't.

You get it! Thanks for taking the time to post the journey

 

[WoodsTruck]

It almost looks like the outer corner could be trimmed individually with a table saw set at about 60° to speed up the clean up later.
But what do I know?

 

[Firstram]

Thanks Firstram,
I opted to cut both sides of the birdsmouths at 45 degrees for simplicity of saw set up.
To get the corners to align, I would have had to have two different miter angles, depth and fence settings to make the joint.
Like you wrote, the corners will be gone when shaped round.
This is a first for me, building hollow spars, so I don't know much about it.

Royce

Re-reading this, I guess you cut that birds mouth with a saw blade. Next time consider using a 3/4" dado blade stack set to your angle. With a sacrificial fence exposing just the right amount of blade it's a 1 pass deal. Beautiful work no matter how you got there!

 

[royce]

It almost looks like the outer corner could be trimmed individually with a table saw set at about 60° to speed up the clean up later.
But what do I know?

A man could, but I'm thinking it will clean up quick with a power plane.

Royce

 

[royce]

Re-reading this, I guess you cut that birds mouth with a saw blade. Next time consider using a 3/4" dado blade stack set to your angle. With a sacrificial fence exposing just the right amount of blade it's a 1 pass deal. Beautiful work no matter how you got there!

I have 5 more spars to make for this boat and really like the idea of a dado stack and one pass.
I think I'll give it a whirl, Thank you sir.

Royce