Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 3:01 pm
beautiful!
Seriously, that is a fabulous job. You must be really thrilled!
Dick
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A Slow Boat To Nowhere
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Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 5:39 pm
That is breathtaking! Instead of putting it in winter storage, bring it to me, we can paddle our lake all year round!!!
Seriously, that is a fabulous job. You must be really thrilled!
Dick
Seriously, that is a fabulous job. You must be really thrilled!
Dick
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 5:55 pm
Appreciate all the kind words. I really like the way it looks so far but there is so much left to be done it is a bit overwhelming some days. I really wanted to launch it this fall but it looks like the aptly named Slow Boat won't be ready until next spring.
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 7:47 pm
Looking good Al.
Don't worry about the 'glass being slightly visible. It's not something anyone is likely to notice and once you start using the canoe the appearance will be far less "important" than it is to you now when all you have to look at is the surface.
Once it's right side up and all trimmed out with pretty seats and gunwales and sitting like a little duck on a glassy lake .......... nobody, but nobody is going to be looking for 'glass pattern.
Sure is pretty wood. Well done.
Don't worry about the 'glass being slightly visible. It's not something anyone is likely to notice and once you start using the canoe the appearance will be far less "important" than it is to you now when all you have to look at is the surface.
Once it's right side up and all trimmed out with pretty seats and gunwales and sitting like a little duck on a glassy lake .......... nobody, but nobody is going to be looking for 'glass pattern.
Sure is pretty wood. Well done.
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 8:22 pm
shipwright wrote:Looking good Al.
Don't worry about the 'glass being slightly visible. It's not something anyone is likely to notice and once you start using the canoe the appearance will be far less "important" than it is to you now when all you have to look at is the surface.
Once it's right side up and all trimmed out with pretty seats and gunwales and sitting like a little duck on a glassy lake .......... nobody, but nobody is going to be looking for 'glass pattern.
Sure is pretty wood. Well done.
Good points, Paul. You should change your forum name to "The Boat Whisperer."
By the way, the wood is all Western Red Cedar. Sure has an amazing variety of colors and grain patterns for a single species.
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2014 8:36 am
I've seen this boat, interesting looking vessel. Good luck, with the craftsmanship you've dispalyed here it will be a huge success.algale wrote:We must have been bitten by the same bug! I'm day dreaming about building a sailboat even while I'm working on the Slow Boat. Have you heard about a design called SCAMP (Small Craft Advisory Magazine Project)? http://smallcraftadvisor.com/scamppagemenu It it a little less traditional looking than the designs you looking at, in fact it has a pram front, and is only 11'11'' long but by all accounts it is a seaworthy little boat and handles very well.
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 3:08 am
Very nice, very nice indeed.
Outer Fiberglass Wet Out
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 9:43 am
Yesterday my wife and I applied the outer fiberglass and wet it out with epoxy. This consisted of a football shaped piece over the bottom (basically extending to the dark strips you see in the pic) and a full layer over that. We heated up the sun room to almost 80 degrees to make sure the epoxy would be thin.
I started mixing and we both started out applying it with squeegees (like you would use for applying auto-body filler). It rapidly became clear that we needed one person just to mix and another to apply. Since my wife was demonstrating much greater skill at using the squeegee, we decided I would continue mix and she would squeegee. She attributed her squeegee prowess to her experience icing cakes and smoothing out wrinkles on bed sheets.
The goal was to wet out the fabric until it was transparent but not float it. You are supposed to see the weave when you are done. The weave gets filled and then covered in the next two coats of epoxy.
It all went pretty well except around the stems and a couple of spots along the shearline. At the stems, the instructions called for making a slit and bringing about two inches of excess fabric around each side. This became a mess so we just wet the fabric out straight to the ends. This morning I cut it off clean at the ends and did a little sanding to smooth it all out. The stems already have a fiberglass strip over the end (from the sealing stage) so it isn't like there's no glass there. I may add another narrow strip over the stems just to give it an extra measure of protection.
At the shearline, there are two or three spots where the fabric didn't wet out properly or pulled away from the hull as the epoxy set up. The largest of these is about an inch long by half an inch tall. I will cut/sand these out, patch them with fiberglass and move on. It should be covered by the gunwales anyway on the finished canoe.
The large white area on the bottom in the photo is a reflection.
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I started mixing and we both started out applying it with squeegees (like you would use for applying auto-body filler). It rapidly became clear that we needed one person just to mix and another to apply. Since my wife was demonstrating much greater skill at using the squeegee, we decided I would continue mix and she would squeegee. She attributed her squeegee prowess to her experience icing cakes and smoothing out wrinkles on bed sheets.
The goal was to wet out the fabric until it was transparent but not float it. You are supposed to see the weave when you are done. The weave gets filled and then covered in the next two coats of epoxy.
It all went pretty well except around the stems and a couple of spots along the shearline. At the stems, the instructions called for making a slit and bringing about two inches of excess fabric around each side. This became a mess so we just wet the fabric out straight to the ends. This morning I cut it off clean at the ends and did a little sanding to smooth it all out. The stems already have a fiberglass strip over the end (from the sealing stage) so it isn't like there's no glass there. I may add another narrow strip over the stems just to give it an extra measure of protection.
At the shearline, there are two or three spots where the fabric didn't wet out properly or pulled away from the hull as the epoxy set up. The largest of these is about an inch long by half an inch tall. I will cut/sand these out, patch them with fiberglass and move on. It should be covered by the gunwales anyway on the finished canoe.
The large white area on the bottom in the photo is a reflection.
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Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 1:56 pm
Wow - Wow - and well deserved!!!!!
Atta Girl Mrs. algale!!
Atta Girl Mrs. algale!!
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 1:34 pm
What an awesome job!!! I would love to be able to do a project like that, but I'm afraid my patients wouldn't hold out long enough.
Again GREAT JOB!!
Again GREAT JOB!!