We now have a nice flat, level surface on the keel timber, stretching from bow to stern (well, just forwards of the sail drive leg location); the rudder is now completely encapsulated and stood out of harms way; and the timbers for the in-the-shed keel construction are roughed out. Moving forwards!
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this is the video record of the build of
this
31 foot eight
sailing dory that uh that is in the
process of being built
and if you've been following you'll know
that at the moment we're working on the
on the keel construction
one of the beauties of this design of
boat is that you build them in the shop
low down and then the kill goes on
towards the end of the build and that's
what we're doing now
um at the moment i'm working underneath
the boat to to get some pieces on to
level out the rocker which is the sort
of curve of the bottom of the boat so
i've put a couple of pieces on forward
and a piece on on the aft and to flatten
that out and this week was all about
getting the final long one that goes all
the way from the forward end to the aft
end or to at least
just forward of the cell drive leg
all the way through there is about six
meters long
straight and flat
once that's in place it's a major major
step forwards because after that i go in
the shed and build the rest of the kill
in there and
at the very end shortly before launch
the whole thing will be connected
together so it's a case of getting that
flat surface through underneath
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foreign
oh
well as you can imagine cutting the
piece of wood wasn't difficult but uh
next job was then to cut the taper where
the aft end tapers down to give us a
smooth wood flow over the cell drive leg
and then it was a case of getting the
curve on that piece of wood now i put as
i said i put pieces on forward and aft
but they weren't quite in line and we
also had a very small bit of rocker
between those
so um
i marked lines across every 10
centimeters on the piece of wood but
same on the bottom of the bow and then
underneath with a spirit level and some
careful measuring i measured the
thickness required every every 10
centimeters along its length
mark that on the side of the wood
and then it's just a case of as i've
shown you before playing in an angle
down to that
line on the side of the wood preferably
just touching that line just just
thinning the line
either side
and then playing in the middle off
laying it flat blending the middle off
and keeping a careful eye that it's
square because it's most important that
piece of wood goes up square not at some
wacky angle that'll give you a keel
pointing down that who knows where
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i don't know if you can see that line
but that's
where i reckon
the profile is for this final piece
all right
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then it was time to give it a dry fit to
see how it fitted
before taking it out and giving it a
thorough coating in epoxy
first with just just um resin
to soak into the wood a bit left at
15-20 minutes to to see how much soaked
in and re-coated any dry bits
also put a thin coat on the bottom of
the boat
then some epoxy thickened with
microfibers
good lot of that spread along the length
put it up
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so that was the dry fit and
astoundingly it goes up there really
well first time
i'm happy with it so
just drop it down now and uh
epoxy it up
oh
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somewhere on there
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all right
move around there
pretty good
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foreign
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me
it was important to get that piece
clamped up well so
clamped it up with various jacks
underneath and wedges four and aft and
then
i made up some clamps with some threaded
rod
which we put through the uh kilbot holes
just drilled those out all the way
through
put some threaded rod with
bits of plywood on the bottom
and clamped it up good and tight and it
pulled up beautifully all the way along
nice ooze just the right amount of ooze
of epoxy all the way along
it's very pleased
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hmm
um
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and we're now in a very very pleasing
situation having
a piece of the kill wood running all the
way from the forward end
all the way back as far as the cell
drive leg
is level
flat all the way through and it makes
further kill progress very very simple
it's what we've been working towards
these last few weeks
it's just a bit of
boxing
is the rider completely
encapsulated now
just giving that end plate a good
sanding that you showed me glass last
week
and that is now
entirely sealed
and i think for now i should just stand
out of the way
that's them
and then was in the position of being
able to start
cutting the wood for the rest of the
kill the part of the kill that's going
to be built up here
in the shed
so i've taken some careful measurements
off the plans
and
started and here we are sat on
everything that will be the keel above
the ballast kill five lengths
of six centimeter 60 millimeter thick
dough fur 160 wide
um
ready to form up first thing i need to
do is mark out where the kill bolt holes
come through
on the top most one of them
and then i can get them glued together
drill the kill bolts through
don't be time to start thinking about
the ballast kill of course cut the uh
cup of taper for the aft end
um as with the other pieces that are
there
but yes
we hope it should go together quite
quickly now certainly the wooden section
will be time to think about balance kill
perhaps
and there we are for now
um another thing that i'm working on at
the moment is is i've done a lot of
thinking a lot of research about masts
i've come across some very very
interesting ideas
the hybrid mast idea which is a combined
aluminium tube with a wooden top mast is
certainly interesting
i'm having problems finding a seller to
sell me aluminium tubes here in germany
which is curious but i'm true
nonetheless it's a mass a lot of
thoughts a lot of research going into
mass at the moment
of an evening you know
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bye
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