And the result is like this:
Calendar Islands Yawl build in NY
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Here you can see the whole stem assembly. It also includes a centerline support for where the forward deck will go.
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And yet more laminating, of the rudder and kickup rudder blade
The kit includes some CNC-cut templates that make it pretty easy to get the right foil shape. I'm not quite there yet, but close:
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Enough with the laminating alright!!!
Last I think, but not least, the daggerboard. This thing is BIG.
Clint suggests a test fit in the clamped-together daggerboard trunk before you glue the trunk sides together. I tried that and it's already a reasonably snug fit, and I haven't glassed the daggerboard yet. The glass will make it a bit wider. I think I'll hold off on the trunk until the daggerboard is completely finished!
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Wise choice. Embiggening a dagger board trunk can be challenging. Easier to just not go there.
Bill“Aren’t you supposed to be the gentlemen who lie for the good of their country?”
“That’s diplomats. We’re not gentlemen.”
“So you lie to save your hides.”
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so enjoying this thread. thanks for posting. from the very first images of CIY
i was captivated and now I can enjoy the great kit design and building skills displayedComment
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Thanks Keyhavenpotterer for the photo of the finished boat. It is much more interesting to see a boat rather than a bunch of random parts! I think that is Jim Levang's, he built what was essentially the prototype. Clint was confident enough in the CAD design (or foolish enough to take the risk) that he sold the first kit to Jim without ever having built one. That it went together quite well is testament to the capability of modern computer design...
For those of you in forumland who want to know what the finished design is supposed to be, in addition to that photo I post here a drawing from the plans:
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Building progress... this weekend was consumed with more pre-hull building steps. Glassing the daggerboard:
And epoxy sealing the rudder (no glass):
Rudder is a kick-up, that is the top and this is the kickup blade:
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The other big (actually biggest in terms of time consumed) job of the weekend was tapering all 8 of the birdsmouth mast staves. Taking the station widths off of the plans, I drew the shape, cut and planed one stave and then used it as a pattern for the other 7. A pretty squirrelly cut on the bandsaw followed by a lot of planing on the first one, but by the 8th stave I had gotten the bandsaw skill down to where I was able to cut pretty consistently close to the drawn pen-line and not have to do a lot of planing.
I'll need a decent weather weekend to take the bandsaw outside and cut the birdsmouth "v" into each of these, hopefully next weekend.
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Just for yucks I got out a couple of big pieces and did a quick-fit because I wanted to see something that actually resembled part of a boat. Here is the transom and the next-forward bulkhead, which join together with a very cool tab-and-wedge system for gluing. Side tanks and what will be a hinged lazarette in the center. Plus the center bulkhead sitting forward of it. I am amazed by the size... the tail end of my dory is maybe a foot wide; this boat has a generous "bustle". Exactly why I wanted it -- room enough for a sleeping platform and ability to camp aboard.
You can get a sense of scale by the yardstock sitting on top of the aft bulkhead:
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Boatbuilding is fun, but getting out on the water is more fun. MLK Day, 2 weeks ago, your humble correspondent in his Pygmy Murrelet kayak out on Long Island Sound. Believe it or not, that woodsy land in front of me is the Bronx, NY:
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An hour and a half after work spent epoxy coating one side of the transom, bulkheads and frames, plus the 2nd side of the daggerboard. If I epoxy coat them now it will be a lot easier than doing them once they are assmbled into the boat. The masking tape is to keep raw wood where the fillets will eventually go, which will make for a better glue joint.
I am using Raka 127 epoxy for this build. My prior boats were built with System Three or MAS. So far the Raka is working great. The only difference I detect between it and those brands is that the Raka cost literally half as much. Maybe it cures a little harder than System Three (the plane just skips over it). I ordered it directly from Raka in Florida. Good quick service, very happy with it.
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Looks great! I'm just reading the article on the CIY in Small Boats ( The annual, paper issue) It is a beautiful deisgn.
This is another thread that makes me wish I had ordered a kit for my Ilur. Live and learn.
Please keep documenting.
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Mike --
Building from the plans teaches you far more than just how to put a kit together. My opportunity (scrap?) pile attests to my learning experience. I'm sure my next boat (also built from plans) will be a much finer build for having built my first.
Bill“Aren’t you supposed to be the gentlemen who lie for the good of their country?”
“That’s diplomats. We’re not gentlemen.”
“So you lie to save your hides.”
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Building from lumber and plans does indeed develop skills that the kit builder will not gain. I respect those who do it the old-fashioned way. However, I have a more-than-full time job, and way too many hobbies to actually be able to pursue as it is. The kit is an enormous time saver, and most likely a finished product quality-improver. Ultimately my goal is more to sail than to build, so time savings is a wonderful thing. Plus, this particular design was born in CAD on the computer, so it would seem kind of silly to take those CNC instructions and convert them back to a lines plan so that the builder could then spile the planks to recreate what was already created on the computer... and have much less accurately cut planks than the CNC machine produces.
Plus I am a believer in modern technology and think it's pretty cool that it can be used to produce a sweet, traditional looking boat based on some very traditional design learnings. Kudos to Clint Chase for conceiving such cool trad designs for amateur builders using modern materials. I kind of wish I had a Deblois Street Dory, the most awesome uber-traditional boat built in modern ply and epoxy. (It's about one order of magnitude cooler than the CLC NE Dory I do have).
My concession to old-fashionedness is that I am making all of the solid wood parts from rough-sawn boards obtained at a lumber yard. A purist would cut his own trees and saw his own boards from logs. But I live in a city and don't have that luxury. At least I didn't just go out and buy a floating Clorox bottle!Comment
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