The Bermuda Sloop....

[NormMessinger]

I failed to check in for a week or so and look what happened.
http://69.39.106.33/__live.jpg?&&&
It seemed like they spent weeks messing with the rabbet? on the keel and the next think I knew it was completely planked. Beautifully done, eh?

[gert]

I've been watching this too; are they cold molding veneer on top of the strip planking?
I assume there will be 2 layers of this, the first one vertical (shown) and the last horizontal?

Man this forrum is fast now smile.gif we're all gonna get speeding tickets :D

[ 02-08-2005, 05:30 PM: Message edited by: gert ]

[NormMessinger]

They are making time, seems to me. What are they useing to bed the laminations in do you suppose?

[JeffH]

The weeks were spent fairing the frame/mold setup (there is no rabbet in the keel... The laminates glue over it and are planed square to the outside face). What you were probably watching was the fairing of the sharp turn in the deadwood aft. That took time since the compass planes couldn't make the turn and it had to be done with a backing-out plane. 'Bout a week and a half for one guy in one spot....

The strip planking is tongue and grove, doug fir, 7/8" thick and 2.5" (or so) wide, epoxy edge-glued with Pro-Set. Took about two weeks. The current diagonal layer is 3/8" doug fir, 7" wide where we can get it (with 2" filler strips between), down to about 3" wide back by the deadwood. The diagonals don't currently go all the way up the deadwood, since that are will be filled with three 1/8" planks per layer, since the 3/8" couldn't take the bend (this hull shape is not really suited to cold-molding).

The diagonals are bedded with what is known in the shop as "magic mix", which is WEST epoxy mixed with a precise ratio of cotton fibers. It isn't really thickened much at all; actually is quite runny. I don't know precisely how the mix was arrived at, hence, probably, the "magic" bit.

There will be four diagonal layers, total, each successsive one in opposing direction. Then there'll be another 7/8" fore-and-aft, mahogany this time. Then a layer of 'glass. Seven layers total. Not a cheap way to build a boat...

Jeff
(edit for glaring spelling errors)

[ 02-09-2005, 10:51 PM: Message edited by: JeffH ]

[gert]

this hulls gonna be bullit proof!

[NormMessinger]

Thanks, Jeff. I knew the minute I hit "add Reply" rabbet was wrong but figured someone would take me for what ment rather than what I said. I've made bermudasloop my home page so I can keep up with the work.

Are the laminations stapled down?

Ain't nothin' as interesting going on in Nebraska these days.

[kc8pql]

Ok, Iwas watching the photo open and just as it finished, it disappeared. Twice.

[JeffH]

1" stainless staples, and 1" #10 screws with fender washers where there's a lot of bend or where the plank isn't laying fair. The staples stay, the screws come out after the glue kicks.

Bummer the camera over at the Godspeed project isn't online, since there's been a lot of neat stuff going on over there lately. Looked over yesterday afternoon and saw someone putting a curve into a 12" X 24" X 15' piece of angelique by using a chain saw laid on top and run back and forth horizontally... Basically like using a grinder, only different. Loud, messy, and a little scary, but effective. Maybe I can snag the time lapse video one of these days and try to post it...

Jeff

[boatlover]

Originally posted by kc8pql:
Ok, Iwas watching the photo open and just as it finished, it disappeared. Twice.BSM (before spiffy machine) ie day before yesterday, about half of the picture was coming down, but then it stopped and the rest of the thread appeared.

Today - I guess that something like 10% is showing - theres 10 or more blank line spaces below the picture before the last bit of Norms message. Also, what shows is in badly washed out false color.

Sigh.

Ed R

[Dave Lesser]

What is the URL for the website where this construction is being documented?

[NormMessinger]

http://www.bermudasloop.org/cam.html

The picture above is bigger (and sharper in my opinion) than on the web site. It also loads the most up to date picture when you open this thread. Can't say why some are having trouble with it, perhaps dial up connection?

==Norm

P.S. The foul color is night light. These guys keep regular working hours, Eastern Standard Time.

[ 02-10-2005, 09:33 PM: Message edited by: NormMessinger ]

[RonW]

O.K. what is going on with this picture.....
Keep clicking on and off the post, and the people are moving around, coming and going..........is this a web cam deal??? very neat.......
I noticed it because the other day it was a smaller and blurry picture with no one in it......now you got people coming and going......cool........

hit the refresh button..wait a minute and refresh again....it is like a slide show....

[ 02-11-2005, 10:05 AM: Message edited by: RonW ]