Building the CLC Eastport Pram - A Wooden Sailing Dinghy (Part 2)
19 02 2012 Posted by Daniel
We left off in Part 1 with the hull glued together and a layer of fiberglass on both sides of the bottom panel.
After trimming the edges of the fiberglass, the general hull shape is left:
The next task is to fill in the bulkheads which add rigidity and further shape to the hull:
Note that in this photo I’ve also gone ahead and epoxied the interior of the space inside the fore and aft thwarts which will become sealed floatation chambers. At this point I must have made a slight mistake in the positioning of the forward bulkhead, but this will show up later. Thinking back I can’t recall exactly where the mistake was made, but I believe it was from referring to the forward transom as a measurement. The transom angles forward and I believe the measurements on the drawings were referenced to the very forward edge of the transom. It’s likely that I may have measured from the edge at the height of the bulkhead instead, which would put the bulkhead a couple centimetres behind where it should have been. The point isn’t exactly where it happened, the point is that measuring accurately isn’t the whole story - it’s important, especially on a boat, to understand where the reference point is.
The next part was a lot of fun, as I got to use every single clamp I own (and a bunch more I had to buy besides) all at once, to glue together the laminated gunwales:
Once these cure, the rest of the assembly should go pretty quickly, so stay tuned and we’ll come back once the epoxy sets and I’ve done the other side.
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Categories : My BoatAfter trimming the edges of the fiberglass, the general hull shape is left:
The next task is to fill in the bulkheads which add rigidity and further shape to the hull:
Note that in this photo I’ve also gone ahead and epoxied the interior of the space inside the fore and aft thwarts which will become sealed floatation chambers. At this point I must have made a slight mistake in the positioning of the forward bulkhead, but this will show up later. Thinking back I can’t recall exactly where the mistake was made, but I believe it was from referring to the forward transom as a measurement. The transom angles forward and I believe the measurements on the drawings were referenced to the very forward edge of the transom. It’s likely that I may have measured from the edge at the height of the bulkhead instead, which would put the bulkhead a couple centimetres behind where it should have been. The point isn’t exactly where it happened, the point is that measuring accurately isn’t the whole story - it’s important, especially on a boat, to understand where the reference point is.
The next part was a lot of fun, as I got to use every single clamp I own (and a bunch more I had to buy besides) all at once, to glue together the laminated gunwales:
Once these cure, the rest of the assembly should go pretty quickly, so stay tuned and we’ll come back once the epoxy sets and I’ve done the other side.
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