: Did you start with one boat ( intact ) with this project?Doing the
: unforgivable at a later stage.. ( cutting it to pieces )??
: I'm curious about this as I have wanted to try it ever since Erez did it many
: moons ago...

Yep, it was a perfectly good new boat I'd just put together and tested in the water.

: Did you do the double bulk-head and cut method..??

Yes, again. Each bulkhead was stuck in place with blobs of 5-minute epoxy. Thin washers separated the bulkhead while I cut with an 18 tpi hacksaw blade. I had only stuck the two together with sheetrock screws where the bolts will be, so I followed the cut every 6" or so with hot-glued scraps bridging the cut.

: How do you get a nice straight line around, in order to get a perfect fit
: between sections?

I used the center seam as a reference line to make two points (each cut) on the outside edge of the bottom hull panel. Drilled tiny holes and drove in extra-long puch pins, courtesy of Pygmy Boats. That determined left/right. Then, again using the plane of the center seam as best I could, I leveled the boat fore-to-aft. Using a short torpedo level, I made the bulkhead plumb while it was also pushed against the two pins below. Marked it at the top, drilled it, and drove in another pin.

Then I scribed the plane of the perimeter onto the surfaces of the deck and hull. Drilled a few more tiny holes as straight as I could. From the outside I used the holes as guides for scribing my cutting line.

All in all, so far so good, even though the cut did wander here and there, usually less than the 1-mm wide kerf. Slow and easy with the blade, which had small blocks of wood glued to it for a better grip.

What I hadn't fully thought out was all the extra fiberglass work I was in for, something like 4 times as many pieces as a normal fully glassed set of bulkheads would be. I'm only about 70% done right now.

Each end of the boat will be held to the cockpit module with 4 bolts, 3/8"SS with fender washers with diameters of about 1.25".

: I don't mind waiting till after R2K3 for a response, if you'd like to keep it
: quiet till then, but I would still be interested in knowing.

It's not that: I'm just trying to get as much done as I can. I've been taking all kinds of photos, so I can put something more detailed later on.

If it works, that is. We may simply find another example of the difference between should and does.

Cheers,

Pete

Hey, we DID actually get up into the 90's for a couple of days.