Date: 7/14/1998, 2:14 pm
The reason for this discussion is that you have to be almost too careful in stitching your panels. A strongback or at least some mold/pre-designed bulkheads (the CLC plans don't come with, at least for the Cape Charles) to help you get things shaped correctly would make getting the alignment much easier. I got tired of pulling out wires and rewiring to adjust the fairness of the lines, especially the keel. This was made harder since I was using stainless electric fence wire (--DON'T!!). I finally used duct tape with a few wire stitches. I checked the hull for "windage" as CLC calls it in the manual and shop tips constantly, before, during, and after taping and filleting. I got the lines right--just not fair, because I over clamped one side of the bow to get the bilge panels vertical at the ends. Lots of dookie schmootz (my 7-year old son loves that term) and sanding later, the extra dip was gone, but I probably added 3 pounds to the boat...well, I do tend to exaggerate...
Point is, if I'd had the bulkhead patterns to use in the first place, it would have built up faster and I would have made fewer compromises like the clamp unevenness. The forward bulkhead placement is not a constant though, so they would've been forced to either make a standard placement for a couple of heights/leg lengths or have you call for offsets or something equally irritating.
>
> The plywood panels were stapled to the molds, then mini-fillets
> applied between mold stations. It did not spring out of shape, or
> twist when removed from the molds. I did, however, permanently install
> the water-tight bulkheads, and four little deck beams prior to removing
> it from the strongback. This may have helped it retain it's shape.
>
> How do you use a strongback with any of the available stitch-and-glue
> kayak kits or plans? They don't come with station offsets do they?
> I mean, how would you build the molds? Mine was home-designed, so
> I had the station offsets.
>
Messages In This Thread
- Crooked Stitch and Glue Kayak Avoidance.
Mark Kanzler -- 7/12/1998, 9:59 am- Re: Crooked Stitch and Glue Kayak Avoidance.
NPenney -- 7/13/1998, 10:51 am- Re: Crooked Stitch and Glue Kayak Avoidance.
Don Beale -- 7/13/1998, 1:15 am- Re: Crooked Stitch and Glue Kayak Avoidance.
Rob Cochrane -- 7/12/1998, 11:06 am- Re: Crooked Stitch and Glue Kayak Avoidance.
Mark Kanzler -- 7/12/1998, 11:20 am- Re: Would a strongback really help though?
Mark Kanzler -- 7/13/1998, 11:46 am- Re: Would a strongback really help though?
NPenney -- 7/14/1998, 2:18 pm- Re: Would a strongback really help though?
George Burns -- 7/14/1998, 4:36 am- Re: Would a strongback really help though?
L.C. -- 7/14/1998, 10:02 pm- Re: Would a strongback really help though?
Wynne -- 7/14/1998, 2:14 pm- Re: Would a strongback really help though?
Mark Kanzler -- 7/14/1998, 11:43 am- Re: Would a strongback really help though?
Mark Kanzler -- 7/14/1998, 10:39 am - Re: Would a strongback really help though?
- Re: Would a strongback really help though?
- Re: Crooked Stitch and Glue Kayak Avoidance.
Scotty Morrison -- 7/12/1998, 7:04 pm- Greenland style S&G kayak from Putz plans
Paul Jacobson -- 7/12/1998, 9:10 pm- Delay on Greenland style S&G kayak from Putz plans
Paul Jacobson -- 7/14/1998, 12:26 pm- Re: Delay on Greenland style S&G kayak from Putz plans
Scotty Morrison -- 7/14/1998, 7:50 pm
- Re: Strongback Configuration
Mark Kanzler -- 7/13/1998, 12:07 pm- Re: Strongback Configuration
Paul Jacobson -- 7/13/1998, 3:15 am- Re: Strongback Configuration (I Like The Looks Of This Method)
Mark Kanzler -- 7/13/1998, 4:32 pm- Re: Strongback Configuration (I Like The Looks Of This Method)
Hans Friedel -- 7/15/1998, 1:06 am
- Re: Geoge Putz Book (what, no link?)
Mark Kanzler -- 7/13/1998, 1:36 pm- Re: Other George Putz Books
Mark Kanzler -- 7/13/1998, 1:40 pm
- Re: Freeboard (no, not Lynard Skynard)
Mark Kanzler -- 7/13/1998, 10:42 am- Re: Freeboard (no, not Lynard Skynard)
Rob Cochrane -- 7/15/1998, 2:27 pm- Re: Freeboard (no, not Lynard Skynard)
Mark Kanzler -- 7/15/1998, 4:00 pm
- Re: Freeboard (no, not Lynard Skynard)
Paul Jacobson -- 7/13/1998, 7:05 pm- Re: Freeboard (no, not Lynard Skynard)
Mark Kanzler -- 7/14/1998, 10:01 am
- Re: Freeboard (no, not Lynard Skynard)
- Re: Strongback Configuration (I Like The Looks Of This Method)
- Re: Strongback Configuration (I Like The Looks Of This Method)
- Re: Delay on Greenland style S&G kayak from Putz plans
- Delay on Greenland style S&G kayak from Putz plans
- Re: Would a strongback really help though?
- Re: Would a strongback really help though?
- Re: Crooked Stitch and Glue Kayak Avoidance.
- Re: Crooked Stitch and Glue Kayak Avoidance.