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Re: Planing sheers on Ches 17'
By:Stan Heeres
Date: 1/8/1999, 10:47 pm
In Response To: Planing sheers on Ches 17' (John Stys)

John:

Just finshed doing this on a Chesapeake 16 and the previous notes about the sheer are right on. What we did to hold the deck down, was use 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 blocks of proper thickness plywood with a hole in the middle of them.

First we "tied" the deck down by using the wood blocks with the proper length drywall screw to "hinge" the deck at the center/ cockpit opening. From there we used the block/ drywall screw set up alternating sides and it worked very well. The reason for doing this was because I have seen kayaks with the nails and do not like them (as said before, they "flatten" out the area around them).

Messages In This Thread

Planing sheers on Ches 17'
John Stys -- 1/8/1999, 9:10 am
Re: Attaching deck on Chesepeake 17'
Marc Leroux -- 1/11/1999, 7:06 pm
Re: Attaching deck on Chesepeake 17'
Mike Scarborough -- 1/12/1999, 7:48 pm
Re: Attaching deck on Chesepeake 17'
Frank -- 1/12/1999, 12:32 pm
Re: Attaching deck on Chesepeake 17'
craig appleyard -- 1/21/1999, 9:46 pm
Re: Planing sheers on Ches 17'
Mike Scarborough -- 1/10/1999, 7:58 pm
Re: Planing sheers on Ches 17'
Stan Heeres -- 1/8/1999, 10:47 pm
Re: Planing sheers on Ches 17'
Don Herring -- 1/9/1999, 10:00 am
Re: Planing sheers on Ches 17'
Stan Heeres -- 1/9/1999, 2:44 pm
Re: Planing sheers on Ches 17'
steve -- 1/15/1999, 9:43 pm
Re: Planing sheers on Ches 17'
Stan Heeres -- 1/19/1999, 7:49 am
Re: Planing sheers on Ches 17'
Don Herring -- 1/10/1999, 10:17 am
Re: Planing sheers on Ches 17'
Mark Bodnar -- 1/9/1999, 10:04 pm
Re: Planing sheers on Ches 17'
jeff warrick -- 1/8/1999, 9:24 pm
someone else building in the living room :)
Brian T. Cunningham -- 1/11/1999, 12:18 pm
Re: Planing sheers on Ches 17'
Nolan Penney -- 1/8/1999, 1:42 pm
Re: Planing sheers on Ches 17'
Don Beale -- 1/8/1999, 12:37 pm
Re: Planing sheers on Ches 17'
Frank -- 1/8/1999, 10:09 am
Re: Planing sheers on Ches 17'
Bobby Curtis -- 1/9/1999, 6:11 pm