"Palm Beach" whim

[H]

It was a quiet day at the race shop in early June, when wondering what to do I decided to build a wooden boat! Where to start I thought, Internet is always good, so in went the words "wooden boat" and I was off.
"Forty Wooden Boats" was aquired from the local book shop, and was followed shortly by a set of drawings for the "Palm Beach".
So I get to thinking Im ready to go and build a boat!
Well one can dream! Up until this day I have never seen in the flesh a real Mahogany type wooden boat let alone have any idea of how to build one, but in my time I have built many diferent things ,so this is just a different type of chalenge?
"Lofting" now you see I had no idea what this even meant, so it was back to the book shop for more litrature before I was out of the starting blocks.
Anway I managed to work it all out and duly lofted the boat full size on six sheets of MDF.
Big Is'nt I thought,oh well youve started now "must press on" so I made a 1/4 ply template for each station, and a strong back, and six weeks in I cut my first real pice of boat.
well I got to my nine frames and laminated the transom out of marine ply (which I will put Mahogany over later)and set them all up on the strong back, made the keel out of two layers of white oak and joined it to my stem, now I could start to see a boat? Ok so its still far from a boat but its the thought that counts.
Which leaves me with today,trying to get the cines to go where they did'nt want to go! still I think that I beat them in to sudmission in the end.now if I can only work out how to send in the pictures? keep you posted "H"

[On Vacation]

Think lamination for the chimes. Cut to thin enough to bend and glue mulitiple pieces instead of hammering in place.

[H]

Palm Beach Pictures http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid29/p35e0b3748de69aa1b0d2adf96961b55a/fd5de962.jpg

[H]

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid29/pb9a353b772eda8de477d95fa1287d00c/fd5dea35.jpg

[H]

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid29/p9f8084aa7503c4bd1fb0ff091e9d19f2/fd5deb1a.jpg

[Rich VanValkenburg]

SWMBO knows that this is what I've been pining to put together for years. I'll be watching close. Lookit the shape in that bottom....a beauty.

Rich

[On Vacation]

I like your shop. If you laminate the chime battens with mulitple strips and then shape with a power plane to fit bottom and side shape, you will have an easier time of it. Use epoxy to glue your pieces. You can post more than one picture on one post.

[ 08-22-2002, 10:46 PM: Message edited by: oyster ]

[andy h smith]

Thanks for the advice Oyster but at the time of writing last night the chines were already sawn for the first seven feet from the front, and were lying on the floor formed and bonded.today I put them on the hull with epoxy.(looks sweet)
So chine hook and clamps over the weekend!

[Hugh Paterson]

Ok stop all this, I am still drooling at the first picture, lovely boat but totally useless for anything but posing in ;) Now will someone please tell me how to get my tongue off the floor and back into me mouth :rolleyes:
Shug.

[pcford]

Think lamination for the chimes. Cut to thin enough to bend and glue mulitiple pieces instead of hammering in place Why? I believe the chines are to be oak. White oak is a dubious candidate for epoxy. They don't have to be "hammered" into place. If the oak is relunctant to bend, a little steaming would help.
What do you think they did before goop was invented?

[On Vacation]

Steaming works but using oak? This still won't always give you a true bend for what he is doing as good as the newer ways of doing things. Lighter woods are avaliable and for the long term will not change as much as oak and the grain issues involved in the use of it. Just because you used candles before lightbulbs and cooked on wooden stoves, do you use them still for full time use now? :rolleyes:

[ 08-26-2002, 07:50 AM: Message edited by: oyster ]