: Hi Niven,
: You've made some interesting choices re heavy and light
: construction. And I like the idea that anyone could frame this
: boat out and then adapt standard door skin ply to the frame-
: doesn't have to be precut or engineered oakum. Apears that you
: used lighter ply than normal for the frames and then edged them
: with solid wood to hold the screws
: through the chines. Looks like the hull would be very strong and
: then the skinned deck should lighten it up. Can I ask how much
: it finally weighed? Are we seeing another breakthrough in boat
: building here? The kind of ideas that keep me comming back to
: this website anyway...
: Michael
Hi Michael
Thanks for your comments. Meant to say its 4.4m x 53cm (15ft4in x 22in)
I dont know the final weight but the frame weighed 8.0 kg when finished so some of that would be included in a stitch and glue equivelent and
its probably 6 - 6.5 kg penalty considering the gunwalds would be needed plus the fiberglass for the joins.
I suspect its about 18kg all up.
Incidently I had the use of peelply suggested so tried that but wouldnt use it again. Maybe I should have used more epoxy. I laid it across the hull.
The frames are 8mm and the bow and stern sections are 12mm ply.
I used oakum for the deck as felt the 4mm pinus ply wouldnt bend through the curve.
The frames ,bow and stern sections are as created in Kayak Foundry in terms of gunwald,waterline and the only change I made was a slight
increase in the angle of the bow segment to avoid a 'droop nose'.
Cheers
Niven