Patrick's WoodenBoat School Blog - Day 3

65 degrees and sunny this morning! Great day to strip plank a boat. We had our 8 AM pre-production meeting with Cliff and we received today’s orders:

Bevel Backbone

-Keelson

-Stems

-Check for Fair

 Glue Strips

-Rip

-Cut scarfs

The first strip we will sheer with square edge after we find the fair. This set the tone for the rest of the day as that first strip creates the “flow” of the strips. Most of it is done with your eyes and what “looks right”. Of course 16 eyes have different opinions yet we all agreed what looked right was correct. I spent about 2 hours planning the keelson flush with the molds to allow the strip planks to finish flush at the bottom of the boat which, by the way, is actually the top of our work piece. Sometimes it gets confusing when you refer to a part of the boat when it is upside down and have to flip your thinking. I’m slowly getting it.

The first photo today is the setting of the first strip. Every strip location on this side of the boat will be based on this critical strip. Let’s hope we did it correctly. Once we started stripping, we glued the strips together and then used an S/05-25 staple to keep the strips tight against one another. We did not staple the strips into the mold. At each end of the boat, we nailed the strips into the stems with the OMER 17.55P and F/15-100CP finish nails. Everyone loved the pneumatic nailer. The staples were driven with two CT6000P compression staplers and an OMER 81P stapler. We could have used a few more once we all started getting into it.

Day Three will start with a 7:30 rowing clinic by Clint Chase at the WoodenBoat docks.

Time for bed!
 

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