Canoe Update
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catsittingstillI put two strips on the canoe today.
I am actually planning to put on two strips a day through Friday. This is a bit less than I would otherwise try for, but Martin my shop class teacher boatbuilder friend is coming to dinner Friday so he can see the hot glue building method in action, and it occurred to me that the last couple of strips will probably be secured with screws rather than hot glue, and so I wanted to be a few strips back from the centerline when he came so he could see how the hot glue works. This will leave me three strips (including the whiskey plank) to secure over the weekend, which I think is doable.
Plus the nice thing about the hot glue as opposed to staples or fishing line, is that the thing securing the boat to the forms does not protrude through the hull. Which means I can do some of the work to fair the hull while I am still planking the boat. I need to remove the beads of hot glue from the outside (mostly done), remove the screws holding the strips at the ends of the boat, drill out those screw holes with a 1/4 inch forstner bit, cut matching white pine plugs for each hole and glue the plugs in before I actually fair the boat, and I figure if I do some of that work this week when I'm not gluing planks in place, I will not have to do it next week when I'm fairing the boat and getting ready to put on fiberglass.
I hope I can finish fairing the boat next week and fiberglass the outside the week after that. This is a rather ambitious schedule, I think, but would put me nicely on track for finishing before the end of June. Fairing the inside will probably take longer--two weeks, maybe?--because it's more awkward and harder to get to, and fiberglassing the inside likewise, because there will probably be at least a couple of days messing about with the dookie schmutz stems.
And I'd like to have two months to make the trim--the gunwales, decks, thwarts, through-holes and seat. Because last time the trim seemed like it took forever.
I keep telling myself I don't need perfection; I need a boat. By the end of June.
I am actually planning to put on two strips a day through Friday. This is a bit less than I would otherwise try for, but Martin my shop class teacher boatbuilder friend is coming to dinner Friday so he can see the hot glue building method in action, and it occurred to me that the last couple of strips will probably be secured with screws rather than hot glue, and so I wanted to be a few strips back from the centerline when he came so he could see how the hot glue works. This will leave me three strips (including the whiskey plank) to secure over the weekend, which I think is doable.
Plus the nice thing about the hot glue as opposed to staples or fishing line, is that the thing securing the boat to the forms does not protrude through the hull. Which means I can do some of the work to fair the hull while I am still planking the boat. I need to remove the beads of hot glue from the outside (mostly done), remove the screws holding the strips at the ends of the boat, drill out those screw holes with a 1/4 inch forstner bit, cut matching white pine plugs for each hole and glue the plugs in before I actually fair the boat, and I figure if I do some of that work this week when I'm not gluing planks in place, I will not have to do it next week when I'm fairing the boat and getting ready to put on fiberglass.
I hope I can finish fairing the boat next week and fiberglass the outside the week after that. This is a rather ambitious schedule, I think, but would put me nicely on track for finishing before the end of June. Fairing the inside will probably take longer--two weeks, maybe?--because it's more awkward and harder to get to, and fiberglassing the inside likewise, because there will probably be at least a couple of days messing about with the dookie schmutz stems.
And I'd like to have two months to make the trim--the gunwales, decks, thwarts, through-holes and seat. Because last time the trim seemed like it took forever.
I keep telling myself I don't need perfection; I need a boat. By the end of June.
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Date: 2011-04-06 01:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-09 09:23 pm (UTC)Back when canoeing started, canoes had big decks and sails, and was paddled by a single person with a double bladed paddle (like a kayak paddle.) The "Canadian" canoe, by contrast was the version with tiny decks at the ends, paddled by two people, each with a single bladed paddle.
Nowadays the Canadian version is so ubiquitous we call it a "canoe" and it's the big decked version (kayak) or sailing version (sailing canoe) that gets special names.
But yep, "dookie schmutz" and "whiskey plank" are real words. Jargon, but real.