Working on the Beer count and the boat a little.

So my friend nick was really disappointed in my Beer/Hour Ratio. He said if i pick him up he will help me with that.  Also i got some work done on the cabin and benches.

I told nick he had to do something that helped with the boat for his beer count to be official.  He sharpened Pencils. 

He drank a solid 16 beers in 3 hours!  Between the two of us we drank 21 beers in 6 man hours.

Carson came by to help as well. 

Amazingly enough the cabin top looks to be straight and solid.

I am going to put a 3.5" radius curve on the bench seats.  In order to get the ply to bend that sharply i had to put Kerf cuts in it (cut halfway thru)  Then once its mounted i will fill it with 406 and glass over it! 

I also decided to put a small angle to the benches so when we are hiked out there will be a small flat spot to sit on. 

Not as much progress as i had hoped.

I have been working slowly on the project adding small support pieces and figuring out other things.  I have been distracted getting the other boats ready to hit the water to race and went down to Charleston for Race week for a few days.

Cutting our support frames for deck and floor in the rear of the boat. 

Here they are in place. 

Stole the I Beam idea from another blog.  These are fun to make and are seriously strong and light! 

Here is the boat as it sits now.  Bunks are just cut and being fit.  I beams are in.  A bunch of fiberglass is on its way and i should have all of the frames taped and start taping the support pieces soon. 

Here is a winch i blasted and powdercoated for our J29. 

Much better grip and looks! 

This boat makes me wonder why i am building a sport boat when i could just take out a big fat loan and have one tomorrow! 

41 vipers getting ready for CRW!

Frames are in!

Frames are in and where to begin!

Every frame went in from a mesurement from the stern.  Measure from the stern and mark each sheer with a straight edge between each sheer with level find and mark the bottom of the hull.  The only issue is had was Frame 53.5.  I had herd other peole having issues with this frame.  I left 1/2" extra on each side of the frame and i still had to pull the hull a long way in!  I would recommend leaving extra on frame 53.5 in order to keep a nice flow to the hull.

I used a spoon to create these fillets.  I like using a spoon i was able to change the diamiter of the fillet by the angle of the spoon.

Here it is all taped up with 15oz biax glass.

20 clamps and counting.

We drilled and zip tied up the hull every 6 inches then put glue (West system mixed with 70% 406 and 30% 410 filler) in between each zip tie.  Just enough to hold.  Then we cut out the ties and ran a fillet joint along the entire inside of the chine.   I used a 1/2 radius fillet which will allow me to use 4 inch tape.  For a rule of thumb your fiberglass tape should go 30mm past your fillet on top and bottom.

Here is a shot right after i glued up the Chine.

Nick clamping all 14 clamps down to the stern. 

Here is the bow stem all cut up.  We used the cutoff pieces from the stem so hold the clamps on straight and it was a real pain to figure out how to get is all on there tight.

All Glued!

Starting to cut out the rest of the bulkheads.

Matt cutting away.  PS a brand new jigsaw blade makes a world of difference!

Measuring and installing bulkheads.

Here is as the boat sits now.  Bulkheads are test fitted.  Now i need to remove them and put fiberglass tape down on the chine re-install the bulkheads glue and tape them in.

 

Its a boat!

The Plywood and Tyvex patterns came in!  We spent all weekend including Friday night working on the panels and hull and got allot done!  I took allot of pictures so i will let them do the talking.  Also check out the video on the scarf jig we build it worked very well and was simple to build!

Full size Tyvex patterns.  Worth there weight in gold!

Here is my boat!  Some assembly required.  It came with an allen wrench tho so its all good!

This is our scarf jig.  Just two pieces of 3/4 ply put together at a 80 Degree angle.  Using the Festool at a 6 degree angle making out cut 4 degrees off the center of the ply made a nice 2" joint.

Laying down epoxy.  I used West System wetting out both sides with straight epoxy then adding a 50/50 mix of High Density filler and Fairing filler.

We filled the buckets half up with water just to give some pressure.  Also we put packing tape on the ply so we had less to sand off later.  It worked quite well.

Bottom Panel getting marked out.

The boat has arrived at the barn!

Cleaning out the hole for the boat.

The eagle has landed!

Another Shot.

Front view.  I just threw it in the cradle. I need to do some adjusting on the cradle but overall it seems pretty good! 

Here is a short video on our scarf joint jig.  It worked well.

Hours: 42

Beers: 10