A little carpentry project.

[Gerrard]

Looks great! But I have a couple of questions: -

1) I presume you are able to get the finished product out of what looks like your lounge!
2) Do you not think that maybe you should get a proper bed first, or build yourself one?

[subucni]

Maybe that's why he's building it Gerrard, the bills are mounting, getting into more debt, yet has a nice life insurance policy and a decent stretch of water near him. Sounds like a easy money making scheme to me. hehe

looks really good though by the way, good work.


Bres

[TeePee]

Funny you should mention it, but I did make a bed back in Florida. I made it very cheaply with 2x4's which in hindsight was a mistake. It was fine to start with, but I had to take it apart and reasemble it every time I moved, and eventually it started creaking really badly. We couldn't bring any furniture with us when we moved up to Oregon, and now my wife assumes that was the 'quality of my workmanship' and won't let me build another. We've been on the floor since February!

The boat is only 23" wide at it's widest point, so it will fit out the door, and over the railing!

[sammyc]

Indeed looking good. I can even just about grasp the process now, which is a good thing, else I'd probably feel compelled to make one, on the principle it's the only way to reeeeally understand how something is done. And then someone would have to restrain me from going down the woodyard until the urge passed... far too many half-sanded floorboards in my house to start carpentering around elsewhere... (plus can't swim. )

Nice to see it shaping up. Thanks for posting it.

[Steve B]

it looks very narrow, are you going to be building an outrigger for it?

[Zak33]

TeePee ....long ago my Dad did this....before we made a Mirror Dinghy in the 80's....befire I was born (early 70's) my Dad made a rowing boat in the living room. My mum was very patient.

It would not fit out of the door.

He had to cut it in half, and put two bulkheads in, making two halfs of a clam shape, which he then put wheels on the bottom of and towed it with his car, looking like a bullet shape front, dead flat back.

I hope your's fits out easier

[TeePee]

Don't worry Zak! with a beam of just under 23" it should fit out just fine by manouvering it over the cooker .

I'll use it as a straight Kayak for now, although I suspect two Ama's (outriggers) and a mast and sail will be a winter project.

With the inside cured it was flipped over to mask and fill the seams. I'm going for a kind of antique wooden boat look, so instead of just cutting the wires off, I heated them with a soldering iron to melt the epoxy and then pulled them out. The holes were then filled with toothpicks.





These were then clipped short and sanded flush, hopefully to look a bit like the bungs used in more traditional boat building.



I also rounded over the edges and sanded the surfaces of all the panels. I made a big mistake here and sanded through the outer veneer of the plywood in one area. I know, I shouldn't be trusted with power tools! I inlayed a nice bit of fancy veneer and I'll put the boat's name here in an 'I meant to do that' fashion.



The hull then gets a layer of 6oz glass which will give it most of it's strength.



And then many coats of epoxy to fill the weave and hide the glass turning this:



into this:



Oooo, shiney!

[stevie lee]

I'm still convinced its water skids for your plane..

and hows your head? feeling dizzy all of a sudden? well ventilated?

incase you missed a wire pin thingy, a blow torch heats up soldering irons quickly.

[Zak33]

that looks so nice

[tigerboyce]

yum. good job, it looks great

[kopite]

I had completley missed this up until now.

That looks like a fun project.

your lucky having such an understanding missus. If i started to build something like that in the front room I have a feeling i`d end up with it inserted somewhere thats very uncomfortable

[Salazaar]

I presume you'll be treating us to some 'action' shots once it's all done?

[mycarsavw]

Impressive work so far.

There was a bloke who built a full size model car in his kitchen and had to knock down the back wall to get it out. Don't be that guy

I presume you'll be treating us to some 'action' shots once it's all done?

[Tumble]

I like the authentic finish in the last picture. Hope it floats properly (Don't forget to add bouyancy)

[TeePee]

I like the authentic finish in the last picture. Hope it floats properly (Don't forget to add bouyancy)

The bulkheads visible in some of the earlier pictures will be watertight with hatches on the deck. This should allow lots of bouyancy, as well as space to carry camping gear. The ultimate plan of for cruising up and down the coast for a few days at a time, although that might have to wait for the sail!

Today I'm trying to put the deck on.

I'm also trying to choose a name for it. So far 'Pilar' is favourite, but I was hoping to use that for a future larger boat (and I hope everyone knows where that comes from). Suggestions (with apropriate literary reference) are welcome.

[Tumble]

I've no doubt that it'll float due to being airtight, but there's legislation over here certainly, don't know how it is in the States that a kayak/canoe must be able to remain bouyant even if it's filled with water. You look at a standard plastic/fibreglass kayak and it'll have a shed load of expanded polystyrene in the bow and stern so at least part of it still floats when it's full of water. I believe that came in quite a while ago after someone drowned having flooded their boat.