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HULL PLANKED

Today I fitted the last strip or plank to the mock up hull.
To celebrate I took a gulp of water from my bottle. It did not take me long to realize that I had taken the wrong bottle and that it was acetone. It was a mistake. I spit out most of it.
I do make mistakes, an other one was to use strip plank construction. Now after having worked with it for some time I do realize that it will be to much cutting up of the Divinycell and gluing. That will make the boat heavier and create bad insulation. I will go back to developed surfaces like Exlex minor. Strip planking worked well for my smaller boat 4.9 meter long and 0.96 meter beam and 3 cm Divinycell of the year 2003. The planned boat will be about 8 meter long and about 1.3 meter beam and the Divinycell 5 cm. Scale makes a difference.
Anyway yacht design is an iterating profession and the next part will be to explore the living arrangement and find out how to place centerboards masts etc. It will be  instructive.
Below are some pictures.

Al the stripes or planks in position
The water and the acetone bottle. The taste is different.
 The small boat 4.9 meter long and 0.96 meter beam. 3 cm Divinycell strip planking worked well.
Exlex Minor under construction.
The modell I used to create Exlex Minor. The lines of the planned boat will be similar but finer bow and and a double ender symmetrical fore and aft. Again I will use a moddel to get the lines.

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To be continued…

Regards Yrvind.

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FRIENDS VISITING

Friends been visiting 16 January 2021 bringing lead from Peter Ny and Epoxy from Nils Malmgren

Here are two videos Petter made one Captain Grahn made one. Captain Grahn and me sailed an old Abin Vega to Florida 2007 Captain was 19 at the start. We are still friends.

Video by Captain Grahn

Video by Petter Robert.

To be continued…

Regards Yrvind

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MORE STRIPES

Hi Friends.

Progress has been strightforward so far but now I have reached the bilges and building speed is slowing down.

I have been clamping the stripes down and inward but for down I need longer clamps and its at a slant so they slip. I solve it by help contraptions it just getting  a bit more interesting.

Before I made 1 stripe on each side every day now its one stripe on one side a day.

Soon I be over the bilge and then speeds pick up again.

Below a picture.

To be continued…

Regards Yrvind

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SCARFING PLYWOOD

Hi friends.

Here is a video showing me scrafing 5 cm strips of 2.4 meter long plywood.

I do it on my table saw. I use a piece of wood to get the desired glue angle. After some initial trials I found the way.

8 stripes build 5 cm of the planking. So far I can do the boat round in one day. In 5 days its 25 cm high.

Below one picture. Click once or twice to enlarge.

The table saw used for scarfing behind Exlex to the right of the green bandsaw. A pile of stripes rest on the jig redy to be used for progress

To be continued…

Regards Yrvind

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A BEGINNING

I have now two stripes of 5 cm planking all around Exlex the Canoe Cruiser. The second was a bit more easy as I had the first one as support. Also I had learnt a bit how to handle the pieces. The plywood is 2.4 meters long hence a lot of scarfing, 3 on each stripe on each side. 12 scarfing so far, but I am learning. It goes better and better.

Below a photo, click once or twice to enlarge.

To be continued…

Regards Yrvind