Mini tugboat

[deepwaters]

D.C.
I have been trying to think how to explain it on here. You have to think of it this way. If you built the entire boat to plans, then chopped off the top of the wheelhouse at the top of the gunwall......then built a second wheelhouse and slid it down inside the first one and put the roof on. Everything is tied together through the helm in front, and the bulkhead in the rear. The sides then bolt through and become one with the bottom sides when extended upward.

I compensated for the additional weigh of the inner wheelhouse by building it of 1X2 framing covered with 1/4" plywood for the walls and roof. Everything is solid as a rock with no "wiggly-giggly" at all. I hope that all makes sense.

Tim

[deepwaters]

Well, here is the latest video update of the build. It is coming, slowly but surely!! :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzCL7vyQEKo

[PaulC]

Congratulations Grandpa! I am looking forward to seeing how you solve the steering/engine control/instrumentation systems. You have done a lot of work, and I am sure you will work out the systems too.

[tomlarkin]

Great video. Congratulations on the new grand kid.

[Frog4]

Sweet build record deepwaters ​luv the video diary as well

[wavewalker]

Wow, excellent building video, I'll be on the edge of my seat waiting for the next progress.
I have the Candu EZ plans also. Currently I have the bottom cut out, the chine logs and rub rail, but wife kicked me out of our one car garage so her car can hibernate in there; looking for a local place I can borrow to at least get some of these parts encapsulated before I loose them to moisture and mold..
Last winter I had some plywood leaning against the house under the eaves covered with a tarp, come spring, it was all black moldy. Kinda damp here near the mouth of the Columbia River, Oregon.
WW

[ILikeRust]

Ok, the bottom is all fiberglassed and painted. Tomorrow, I flip her back over for the last time!

Here is a video update.

Thanks for watching! Tim

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1--jr_V07VU

I like the blue also.

Pete is cute as heck!

I'm jonesing for a dog, but my wife is staunchly against the idea for now...

[peabody]

Dang? ??
Wheres the ending?
I was REALLY enjoying this thread! !!!
Peabody

[wavewalker]

Me too, I was told he stopped for a bit to work on a retirement cabin and while he was doing that, someone offered him a deal he couldn't refuse on the almost finished boat..

[peabody]

Awwwww ......