What we intend to Build – 2

Continuing the build pictures of Alec Jordan’s Prototype ‘St Ayles Skiff’ from here

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Look, no hands! – Balanced on her keel

Starting the big clean up – hot air gun and modified knife scraper help remove the epoxy squeeze out.

‘poxy squeeze out at the stem, needs carefull cleanup to fit the inwales

cleaned up stem

setting the vertical bevel angle for the inwale

setting the horizontal bevel angle for the inwale – it helps that there were two adjustable bevel guages

marking the vertical bevel on the inwale

marking the horizontal bevel on the inwale

marked up inwale ready for the cut.

the ability to cut very accurately first time makes the choice of a japanese pull saw easy

inwale bevelled – the cut is as the saw left it, no cleaning up required.

first lamination layer of the inwale in place – dry run

two lamination layers of the inwale in place – dry run

marking up the frames at inwale for trimming

marking up the frames at inwale for trimming

marking up the frames at inwale for trimming

cutting the scarf on the inwales

cutting the scarf on the inwales

first layer of the inwale glued and clamped – because of the moisture content of the larch balcotan was u=sed in preference to epoxy

scarf joint in the inwale first layer – these joints were arranged to lie under the kabes and thus be hidden from view

second (and middle) layer of the inwale in place, a kabe was used to separate sections so producing the kabe slot without a lot of excavating later

general view of the second layer of the inwale glued and clamped – every G clamp in the shop was used, over 80

Kabe in its slot, right way up. the third layer of the inwale will form the fourth side of the slot.

The third layer of the inwale glued and clamped

Tea break

Front of the keel needed wedging to hold the hull firmly while we crawled around inside cleaning up excess gloop

trimming the stem – scope for individualism here

use of mirror to check alignment of thwart beams

adjusting thwart beams

Thwart beams and thwarts temporarly in place

She’s looking better

trialing an idea for the Cox’s perch

Cox’s seat in place, it just rests on the planking line.

Alec trying out the Cox’s seat and an idea we had for an offset tiller

Thwart beams are bolted to the frames, to reduce wear the bolt holes are lined with copper tube – 10mm OD microbore heating pipe.

Frames also lined with copper tube

the everlasting cleanup.

most of the bits in place – as seen from a precarious perch in the upper reaches of the workshop

and from the other side

inwales varnished – the rest in yacht primer

undercoated

Sheer strake in the accent colour

and again

Looking good

Rudder assembly with offset tiller

 

The Project Launch pictures are here

  

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