The keel is progressing and the upper rudder end plates get sheathed; I eventually succumb to a new hand saw; and I share a few thought on keel construction for the Benford dory.


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Tony

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hi i'm tony this is sv to badger

we're building this cruising sailboat

sailboat's designed to be lived aboard

to travel the waters of the world

and uh to be

built relatively comfortably

with this fairly ordinary kit that you

might have at home with materials that

are readily available

and

let's see what's going on this week

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well we started off this week in here

working on these

upper end plates on the rudder just

glassing them getting them encapsulated

sealed against moisture intrusion

works on the other side first of all

i've flipped the rudder over since

and as i say glass that one side

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that's quite a nice big delivery of wood

um for the keel

structure

um

douglas fir a couple of words about that

um

because as i said in the intro one of

the things about these boats the

benfidori and a few other designers

boats are that they're actually designed

to be built by the home builder they're

not

not intended for professional building

although i'm sure designers will be

entirely happy for a professional to

take one on they are really intended for

the home builder and that makes them

very ideal if you look at

the works of george buehler for example

and there are quite a number of them

being built on various youtube channels

george beulah boats um you know his

discussion of wood that's that's okay

for or that's suitable for boat building

is quite eye-opening i think to be to

the home builder

and the ben fedor is uh

jay bimford stipulates douglas fir for

framing and for all of the structural

elements of these boats

what we've done we've got dog fur

it's you know fairly durable wood

readily available grows locally so in

terms of the environment

environmental impact is it's

relatively small and

as wood goes these days

it's relatively economical

but um

when i was in the wood yard buying this

wood

i did get some good news because the

owner there uh told me that the wood

prices have peaked and are in fact

going down a little bit at the moment so

um

if you're planning on

buying a load of wood to build a boat

might be worth waiting a few months um

early next year he suggested prices

could be back to almost what he

describes as normal that's his forecast

not mine

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returning to the rudder once it was dry

it was ready for a sand up turn the

rudder over and do this side and i did

this side just with some scraps of glass

i had glass cloth

rolling the rudder over she looks a bit

heavy don't you but actually isn't

particularly heavy i don't think it's

any heavier than any other stern hung

rudder for a boat of this dimensions

uh when i look at the rudder on hazel's

boats a stone hung rudder on a freedom

28

it's a very similar size

piece of kit must weigh a similar amount

but what it is is a bit of an awkward

shape so um i tend to get somebody to

give me a hand to roll it i have rolled

it by myself but it's easier with a with

an assistant

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should be good

over the years a few people have

suggested to me that i bought one of

these

japanese saws and

i've been a bit reluctant i'll admit

i've always been happy enough with

western swords but

um

my favorite online tool shop dieter

schmidt fine tools they do not sponsor

me in any way

has these on special offer this month so

i bought one

until i'd try it out

and uh i've tried it

i've tried to use it a fair bit this

week on different things um

and i have to say i'm quite impressed

really very sharp cuts really well it's

got the blades okay for cross cut or rip

according to the specs

um

i can't say i'm wild about the hand or

i'd prefer a you know western style

handle i think

but it cuts really well and obviously

the flexi blade would allow you to cut

close to a surface

yeah it's very good

and i guess

i will say this if i only had one saw

that wouldn't be a bad option

so here's the the kill structure as it

stands at the moment and a couple of

people ask me questions about that or

this

last week a couple of regular viewers

i thought i'd uh address those

i believe it was pierre who asked me um

if i was going to go for a single

central keel or bilge kills two

at the size bilge kills obviously would

give you the advantage of being able to

sit on the bottom if you were drying out

in a drying out harbor for example and i

seriously considered bilge kills um i

thought long and hard about it

obviously great advantages especially

with a flat bottom bow like this very

easy to fit

and in the end i decided against it

because i have

followed the designers

recommendations in everything that's

structural in this boat

um

well

the internal frames that i fitted were

actually above and beyond designer but

i've followed his recommendations and

the designer has a single uh two keel

options one's the long single down the

middle kill which is one i'm going for

the other one's a fin keel

uh there are no bilge kill options

designed for this boat i think actually

the designer says that it's a

possibility and he would do them for an

additional fee or something like that

but

i've stuck the designer and the single

central kill has the big advantage that

it protects the cell drive leg and the

radar at the back two bilge kills on the

sides would leave the sail drive leg

exposed you'd have to put a skeg or

something there to protect that and the

rudder or you'd have double rudders

which would be hard on a double ender

so i'm going for the as per design

single central long kill

and then pano who um

has his own youtube channel called

arctic sea camel

and he's actually just starting to build

a boat himself he's in the in

at the stage of building the boat shed

but his his youtube channel is well

worth checking out i recommend it

um he asked me

wouldn't it have been wiser to fit these

while the boat was upside down and you

know there's no doubt he's absolutely

right it would have been

and it's just a bit of dodgy planning on

my behalf really doing it this way was a

mistake if i were to do it again

i would fit these parts to get that flat

through the hull after and fought aft

i'll fit them when the boat was upside

down

and i just hadn't thought it through

well enough and and that leads me to

the point that um

the really

the reason why i'm doing this channel is

is that i thought there was a lack of

information about the building of these

boats i i think

they're very suited to the home builder

and i really felt as i say a lack of

information about how to build these

boats so i decided to record the entire

thing

if you're following on and intended to

build yourself a ben for dory with a

long heel i thoroughly recommend that

you put these parts here

on

while the boat's upside down

okay it through

until you're about the right thing

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it's off

and that

ladies and gents

is where i'm going to leave you this

week

um i spent a

significant amount of time

marking this one out this is the final

piece that's going up under the boat

goes all the way from the bow actually

the aft end to the bow

i've measured out marked it every 10

centimeters i've taken measurements off

the bottom of the boat

i've now

began

planing it to to shape

and making progress

hope to get that on this week

intend to get that on this week and

that'll be the final piece that's going

on the bottom of the boat and then we

can come in here the rudder will be out

of the way completely encapsulated we

can start

cutting pieces to build the wooden keel

in the other bit that will be you know

the bulk of the wooden kill

that i anticipate would go quickly with

it with a flat surface on the top and

then we'll be thinking about ballast

exciting times

massive thank you from me to you for

watching and to the lovely people who

support us on patreon paypal

you guys make this thing possible you

rock

and be back next time see you then

bye

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