Frames on Strongback

 25/01/2021


She's starting to look like a boat! Frames E, D and D1 went up in a similar fashion to T and A, so the next step was to slot the bunk sides into A and D1 to position S, C and B. With hindsight it may have made sense to mount D1 first, and then A and the bunk side together, but instead we cut the tabs on the bunk sides short and it worked out ok. Extra strength will be added in the filleting, but probably not necessary. The only consideration we found was to square off some slots and bevel some edges. 

After the bunk sides we moved to the cockpit sides. securing them onto A and T. The top of S was then dropped into the slot in the bunk sides and found a perfect line running down the cockpit side and to its timber on the strong back. Move B and C into position and all frames are mounted. 

We also put the knee and stem into position (missing from the photos). Relatively strait forward process from the B&B plans. 

Freddie








Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

All Fair and Prime

Image
 Fairing the hull and Priming After quite a long time away from the boat due to work commitments and Freddie heading across the Atlantic I'm finally back in the barn and persevering with the fun of filling, fairing and lots and lots of sanding.  We decided to fair and prime the hull before turning over as having painted a fair share of boats before, working underneath is even less fun! We left a strip of around 150mm from the gunnel down the topsides for hull to deck joint. I've tried really hard to limit the amount of filler I've put on the boat, it being made of flat panels there isn't lots of curvature that needs to be smoothed over, and more filler equals more sanding, more cost and a lot more time. The majority of filler I've been using is epoxy with micro balloons and some colloidal silica mixed to a nice thick peanut butter consistency. This was applied with a nice long straight edge and plastering spatulas. Having sanded this back, I then used some quick cur
Read more

Stringers on Frames

Image
 05/02/2021 Lots of adjustments, shaping, swearing and patience to get the stringers in place. Working in a relatively balanced fashion so as not to put uneven pressure on the frames and distort the symmetry. Once all the stringers had been dry-fitted and screwed into place, I mixed up a very thick mix of glue and stuck it all together.  Freddie
Read more

Planking

Image
 20/02/2021 Delayed by a week because of a spell of weather too cold to glue in, very happy to have completed this stage though.  Some of the stringers needed to be shaped first, as did the end of the keel floors.  I attached the planks in three steps: 1. topside and inner bottom; 2. chines; 3. outer bottom. This was a mistake, not too sure why I did it that way. B&B designed the kit to be assembled topside-chine-bottoms. It wasn't too much of a drama, but would probably have made shaping easier and quicker, the main issue was with the forward chine planks. Having only two hands, it would have been much easier to clamp the top of them onto the stringer, not possible with the bottom plank already glued in. Taking the planks on and off to make alterations and then glue made it a bit of a bastard.  I did not use the butts to join the planks together as it seem cumbersome and unnecessary, but have now been persuaded to fit them later to reduce flex at the joins. Freddie
Read more