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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Sea Bee 13
By:Rusty Koscianski
Date: 9/4/2010, 2:35 pm
In Response To: Re: Skin-on-Frame: Sea Bee 13 (Dave Gentry)

Thank you so much for your help.

As a former art teacher I now appreciate how lost my beginners must have felt.

The Sea Tour 13 looks good however there are no offsets posted, just a line drawing. The Sea Bee cross sections are photographed so I can print them and scale them up without much calculation.

I'm not totally math challenged, but I've never used offsets before. I can handle a boat with four cross sections like the Sea Tour 13. What do I do about getting offsets to make the cross sections?

I am so happy that there is a place for a rank beginner to ask questions.

Rusty

: Any of Tom's aluminum framed folding kayaks can be built as
: non-folding wooden framed boats. So, if you want a simple, short
: kayak, you could look at his Sea Tour 13.
: But, by all accounts, the multi-chine Sea Bee is a good boat, and
: not much more difficult to build than a hard chine boat.

: All of his boats are pretty easy to build, though the longer ones
: obviously require more frames, and the multi-chine boats require
: more stringers and notches for them.
: What and where do you intend to use it? This is more important for
: choosing a good boat for you. You are a good size for most of
: Tom's boats, btw.

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Skin-on-Frame: Sea Bee 13
Rusty Koscianski -- 9/4/2010, 12:20 pm
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Foster -- 9/5/2010, 5:49 pm
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dan4sea -- 9/22/2010, 12:53 am
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Bill Hamm -- 9/4/2010, 2:25 pm
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Rusty Koscianski -- 9/4/2010, 2:47 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/5/2010, 12:23 am
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Rusty Koscianski -- 9/21/2010, 10:00 pm
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Scott Shurlow -- 9/22/2010, 12:18 pm
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Rusty Koscianski -- 9/22/2010, 4:05 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/21/2010, 11:53 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/21/2010, 11:59 pm
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TheLuckyOne -- 9/22/2010, 8:02 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/23/2010, 1:58 am
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Rusty Koscianski -- 9/28/2010, 8:40 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/29/2010, 9:26 am
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Foster -- 9/29/2010, 1:10 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/29/2010, 2:34 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/29/2010, 2:31 pm
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Shark Bait -- 9/22/2010, 9:38 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/23/2010, 1:59 am
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Rusty Koscianski -- 9/22/2010, 8:10 am
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Dave Gentry -- 9/21/2010, 11:39 pm
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Rusty Koscianski -- 9/22/2010, 8:06 am
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TheLuckyOne -- 9/21/2010, 11:28 pm
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Rusty Koscianski -- 9/22/2010, 8:05 am
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Rusty Koscianski -- 9/5/2010, 8:16 am
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Bill Hamm -- 9/6/2010, 1:00 am
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Rusty Koscianski -- 9/6/2010, 8:05 am
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Bill Hamm -- 9/6/2010, 8:51 am
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Greywuuf -- 9/4/2010, 8:00 pm
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Don T -- 9/4/2010, 9:05 pm
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Dave Gentry -- 9/4/2010, 1:22 pm
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Rusty Koscianski -- 9/4/2010, 2:35 pm
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Will Clarke -- 9/4/2010, 8:37 pm