Monday, July 30, 2007
Well this isn't an update on my boat but my friends, who have been helping me with mine, have just finished their boat and tested it last Sunday (07-22). Here are some photos of it from the chase boat.....pontoon boat...which could not keep up with the cat even in light winds. I can't wait to get mine done!
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Well.....its been a while. Apparently it was August 23 of last year since I last updated this blog. And truthfully, not a much has been done since then. I took the time to do some work on the house and the yard. But now that it is summer again I have been working on it a bit, enough anyway to post another update.
The last post said I was going to pull the first hull off the mold and set it in the holding jig and that I would update it then....that didn't happen. So the first three images are of the first hull off the mold and in the jig.
The remaining images are the start to the internal structure of the boat. There are only a few components to that structure. There are two bulkhead, a transom board, and the substructure.
The two bulkheads are vertical "walls" and run the beam (width) of the hulls, placed where the two cross beams will mount. The cross beams are what connect the two hulls together and support the trampoline in between the hulls. The bulkheads are [currently] made of two 3mm thick pieces of ply-wood (okume) laminated over a 1/2 inch closed cell foam core. This make a thick, light weight, and very strong capable of supporting the stresses of sailing.
The transom is what will close off the back of each hull and is what the all important rudder will be mounted to. This is simply two 1/4 inch pieces of ply-wood laminated together. I do not have the actual bulkheads or transom boards cut yet, but what I did do is cut patterns for them so I can cut parts for both hulls as I need them. Looking through my photos I don't think I have images of these patterns...I will need to get some and edit this post later.
The substructure is the third component to the internal structure of the hulls. This [in the photos] is what the pink insulation foam is for. The series of photos are showing how I patterned the necessary shape for the foam and how I cut the foam. The substructure is place horizontally about eight inches down from the top of each hull. There are two substructures one in front of the forward bulkhead and one in between the two bulkheads. The forward substructure is to keep the hull from collapsing when pitch poling. This is when the boats flips end over end. The aft substructure is to keep the hull side from collapsing when I am hiking out while flying a hull....meaning one hull is out of the water and I'm [literally] standing on the side of the boat balancing it. Oooohhhh I can't wait!
So...thats about it for now. The next step is to finish fairing the second hull, glass the inside of the first hull and the outside of the second hull. Then I can start setting these structural components. I do need to build at least one dagger board....similar to a keel, but removable and no counter balance weight. I'll get into that when I do build it.
Until then....
The last post said I was going to pull the first hull off the mold and set it in the holding jig and that I would update it then....that didn't happen. So the first three images are of the first hull off the mold and in the jig.The remaining images are the start to the internal structure of the boat. There are only a few components to that structure. There are two bulkhead, a transom board, and the substructure.
The two bulkheads are vertical "walls" and run the beam (width) of the hulls, placed where the two cross beams will mount. The cross beams are what connect the two hulls together and support the trampoline in between the hulls. The bulkheads are [currently] made of two 3mm thick pieces of ply-wood (okume) laminated over a 1/2 inch closed cell foam core. This make a thick, light weight, and very strong capable of supporting the stresses of sailing.
The transom is what will close off the back of each hull and is what the all important rudder will be mounted to. This is simply two 1/4 inch pieces of ply-wood laminated together. I do not have the actual bulkheads or transom boards cut yet, but what I did do is cut patterns for them so I can cut parts for both hulls as I need them. Looking through my photos I don't think I have images of these patterns...I will need to get some and edit this post later.
The substructure is the third component to the internal structure of the hulls. This [in the photos] is what the pink insulation foam is for. The series of photos are showing how I patterned the necessary shape for the foam and how I cut the foam. The substructure is place horizontally about eight inches down from the top of each hull. There are two substructures one in front of the forward bulkhead and one in between the two bulkheads. The forward substructure is to keep the hull from collapsing when pitch poling. This is when the boats flips end over end. The aft substructure is to keep the hull side from collapsing when I am hiking out while flying a hull....meaning one hull is out of the water and I'm [literally] standing on the side of the boat balancing it. Oooohhhh I can't wait!
So...thats about it for now. The next step is to finish fairing the second hull, glass the inside of the first hull and the outside of the second hull. Then I can start setting these structural components. I do need to build at least one dagger board....similar to a keel, but removable and no counter balance weight. I'll get into that when I do build it.
Until then....
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