tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66037595596398312572024-02-18T20:14:05.660-08:00SCAMP #243The story of my SCAMP sailboat build. For more information on the design, see www.smallcraftadvisor.comWoodnMetalGuyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07650735119777059767noreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6603759559639831257.post-18561918868572614512015-06-07T20:18:00.000-07:002015-06-07T20:18:14.020-07:00Launching Day! Scamp #243 is afloat!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the time since my last post I have been busily working away on the boat, and have let the blogging slide. I wanted to be in the water in time for the annual Lake Pepin Messabout, and I'm happy to say I made it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And the little porthole is fun to peek through. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had a minor panic just off the ramp when I went to let the centerboard down and nothing happened! I popped the cover off the centerboard case and forced the board down, and then saw floating in the case a roll of masking tape that had gone missing. It had fallen into the centerboard case and jammed up the board.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Panic over, we enjoyed the </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">gentle wind for the first evening sail as we sailed about for a couple hours. It was especially fun to put the tiller over and spin about in about our own length.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The folowing day was the annual messabout and here's a shot of some of the boats on the beach. I sailed most of the day, covering about 18 miles with various passengers. The winds were brisk with whitecaps and significant waves, and I had two reefs in the entire day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This weekend I checked off one of the most venerable items from my to-do list - applying the sail numbers to my Neil Pryde sail. I think I've had this on the list for about a year, and decided to check it off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The actual numbers are decals made of a lightweight cloth, and came with the sail. The numbers all came as '8', so the first step was to cut them down to the needed digits. I did that and carefully rounded the cut corners to to give a finished look.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The numbers are to be centered below the lantern logo, so I drew a vertical line through that. The numbers are 2" below the logo, and with a 2" separation between them. Nothing is square to the edges of the sail, or to the seams between the sail panels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Note that the numbers on the two sides of the sail are not at the same height, so when light is shining through the sail they don't obscure each other. The number on the port side is placed lower, and full details are at this link: <a href="http://smallcraftadvisor.com/message-board2/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=861" target="_blank">SCAMP sail number placement</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then put a sheet of contact paper over the whole works. My plan was to then hinge the numbers up and remove the sticky backing, putting them back right in place. This was a fiasco, as the contact paper didn't stick very well to the numbers and things were getting out of whack from the first. Luckily we had only part of the '3' stuck down and were able to peel that back and start over. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the items that has been outstanding on my list of things to complete for some time is to fit some kind of clip to secure the hiking stick on the tiller when it's not being used.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I looked around online for something that would work, and even ordered some nylon clips from Duckworks, but they didn't end up working, as they were too small and too stiff. Might use them for something else sometime.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So today I implemented an idea I had a while ago to make my own clip. A few years ago I used rubber strips cut from the tread of a worn out implement tire to pad the steel crosspieces on a canoe trailer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With my mast rounded and epoxy coated I decided to complete the parts needed to actually hold it in the boat. SCAMP is similar to other small sailboats in that the mast is secured in two spots, at the base and somewhat further up. This design has a mast trunk, a box that the mast fits in (see this post: <a href="http://woodnmetalguy.blogspot.com/2014/03/mast-trunk-installed.html" target="_blank"><mast-trunk-installed></a>), so two blocks need to be made that fit the mast and the trunk, and hold the mast tipped aft at a 2 1/2 degree angle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used a scrap of pine cut from a lumberyard 2x6 to make the upper block. Rather than attempting to tilt the drill press head to exactly 2.5 degrees, I instead left it vertical and made a ramp to hold the wood at the correct angle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was a good chance to drag out the old high-school trigonometry to calculate some dimensions. I could figure the length of the ramp needed assuming I would put a 3/4" shim under the end of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think this had been hiding until the contrasting paint showed up the unevenness in the trim piece I had installed at the top of the bow transom last September (see this post: <a href="http://woodnmetalguy.blogspot.com/2014/10/rubrails-installed.html" target="_blank"><rubrails></a>). My intent was to have the bottom of the trim match the curve of the deck, but looks like that didn't work out:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought about this for a while wondering how I could most easily correct the problem. My planes would not work on this concave surface. A curved sanding block beveled to match the edge angle could work, but that seemed like a lot of work and not guaranteed of success.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I finally hit on the idea of making a custom router base to which I could attach a fence curved to fit the deck, and a leg to hold the bit at the correct angle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a shot where you can see how this fits against the bow of the boat. The bit is 1/2 inch diameter, and set to the correct depth will give me a nice radius at the bottom - I won't even need to re-fillet this joint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the mast fairly round after my work with the hand plane, I continued with the final sanding. I used a power sander to knock down the worst of the ridges, but my hand could still feel edges, so I then worked it over a couple times with a long strip of sandpaper, which could wrap around and did a good job of taking off the high spots. It's pretty round now, and I've judged it good enough. Here's a shot of the base:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a sneak peak of the start to an upcoming project - I found this one really nice </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">16' long</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">cedar 2x6 in the rack at Menards. Nice tight grain and very few knots. I'm planning to use this to build my yuloh - a Chinese sculling oar that I will use to move the boat when the wind dies. I'll have more information on that to come.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have had the parts for the mast cut out and ready to go for about six months (see <a href="http://woodnmetalguy.blogspot.com/2014/08/mast-boom-and-yard-making-some.html" target="_blank"><this post></a>), and this weekend seemed like the right time to assemble them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the jig set up, I next ensured I had the plugs for the ends of the mast ready to go. The top end is plugged by a simple octagonal stick about 3/4" thick. The plug at the base of the mast is also octagonal, but protrudes from the end with a square section that will fit into the mast step. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The block of laminated plywood shown below, which I call the rudder head, attaches to the transom of the boat and connects the tiller (steering handle) with the rudder. I've previously detailed the construction of this part and that post is <a href="http://woodnmetalguy.blogspot.com/2014/06/rudder-head-construction.html" target="_blank">< here ></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought for some time about how to check the alignment of parts. Just eyeing things up didn't seem to be sufficient. Since each half of the fitting has a part with a hole (the gudgeon), and one with a rod (the pintle). I hit upon the idea of putting a close-fitting rod through the gudgeon hole and checking the alignment with the pintle. I went through my scrap supplies and found that I had an old aluminum arrow shaft that was the perfect size. Putting this through the gudgeons showed up the alignment problem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided on a top that is about 3/4" thick and 2" wide. I laminated this up from four 1/2" strips of pine, which take the bend fairly easily.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I put clear packing tape on the tops of the seats, so that I could laminate the tops in place. It was another glue-up that took most of my clamps. I used C-clamps to clamp sticks to the seatback on the inner part of the curve, then pulled in the ends with the handscrew clamps. I used lightweight bar clamps down to the bottom of the seat back to pull the top down to the curve, some small bar clamps with sticks to align the top of the lamination, and some small bar clamps and c-clamps to hold the laminations together. Quite a conglomeration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I primed the bare wood with unthickened epoxy, and then used silica-thickened epoxy to glue down the parts. After the epoxy cured and the clamps were cleared away I was pleased with the way things were looking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I climbed in the boat and tried them out and found this bit of wood provides a really nice arm rest with no sharp edges, and sitting up on top for a bit to stretch my legs if wanted should be very doable, too. All in all a nice looking and functional addition to the seat backs that finishes things off nicely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the centerboard slot gasket installed I completed turning the hull right-side up again. I grabbed a couple of the stands that were under the building jig and screwed parts of the jig side panels to them to make a stand to raise the hull off the floor, and it sits nicely on the skegs. I expect to put similar cross members on the boat trailer for support there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had noticed while installing the centerboard slot gaskets that the uphaul line for the centerboard was not going to line up as I expected with the hole in the front of the centerboard case, being an inch or so too low. Not sure how I messed that up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided to fix that by routing the line out of the back edge of the board vs. the top. That position comes around higher when the board is raised. I bored the new hole.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the hull upright I proceeded to trim and round over the top of the rubrail. Always satisfying to make curly shavings with the plane.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then I worked some more at fairing the deck/cabin joint. This was necessary because of the fiberglass tape that I applied on the exterior to strengthen that joint. I iterated a couple times on this and then decided it was good enough.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then I could move on to paint. I had done the cuddy interior and the floor while the boat was upside down, so now I continued with the seats and seat backs on the inside, and the deck, cabin and roof.</span><br />
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Next up I'll be laminating the top trim for the seat backs. That will add about 3/4" more height to the seat backs, and I'll be able to put a generous round over on the edge for back comfort. I'm planning to have the top 2 inches wide to make a comfortable arm support. Stay tuned for that.WoodnMetalGuyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07650735119777059767noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6603759559639831257.post-22314024561870868882015-01-17T20:55:00.001-08:002015-01-17T20:55:57.798-08:00Installing the centerboard slot gasket<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The purpose of this gasket is to reduce turbulence at the centerboard/hull interface and the open part of the centerboard slot. It also helps to keep sand and pebbles out of the slot when sitting on the beach. Pebbles in the slot can jam the board in the up position.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are a number of ways to attach a gasket, and I chose to use adhesive tape. I also chose to install the gasket on the hull bottom without routing any kind of recess. Here's the tape that I ordered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I ordered 3" wide gasket material from </span><a href="http://www.apsltd.com/" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Anapolis Performance Sailing</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. This gasket material is a plastic somewhat thinner than a credit card, smooth on one side and with a thin dacron material bonded to the other side.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I believe the dacron material is so that you can epoxy on the gasket, but I thought it would be potentially difficult to get epoxy only where I wanted it, so I decided to go with the tape. I assumed I would need to scuff up the shiny side and apply that side to the tape, leaving the cloth covered side down. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ideally I would want the shiny side out, so I did a test, taping two test sections to the rear of the skeg. To my surprise, the cloth side seemed to adhere very well to the tape, so I decided to tape to that side and leave the shiny side out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next I cut the gasket material to size. I had to trim the width a bit. I lined up one side of the gasket with the centerline of the slot, and overlapped the other by about 1/4". My idea in having this a bit asymetrical is that it reduces the likelihood of the material 'tenting' and failing to lie flat with the board retracted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since there is tape on the front of the slot I marked and cut the gasket to allow the edges to flex open.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Which looked like this on the flat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I cut the marked area away, and then after roughing up the gasket I adhered another bit of gasket with another piece of tape. I then extended the board again and trimmed the edges so it looked like this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the hull painted, my next step was to install the skid strips on the bottoms of the skegs. I ordered UHMW (ultra-high molecular weight) plastic from <a href="http://www.usplastic.com/" target="_blank">US Plastic Corp</a>. I got two 1 1/2" wide10-foot lengths cut at the 7 foot mark for shipping. I ripped them in the table saw to 1 1/4" wide, cut them to final length, rounded the ends, and routed a roundover on the edges.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I then drilled and countersunk screw holes in the plastic to match up with the prepared spacing on the skegs. I drilled into the skegs in the places where I had previously overdrilled and filled with thickened epoxy. I first put a tape flag on my drill bit so I would not go too deep and drilled pilot holes for the screws.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I then countersunk the skeg a bit, because I found when driving the screws in I would auger up a little epoxy and then the skid strip wouldn't lie flat on the skeg. On the second skeg I used a bit bigger drill and things went better. You need to use a larger pilot drill than you would if driving the screw into wood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Weldon countersink shown here works great for any kind of counter sinking -- much superior to the other style that is star-shaped on the end and always tend to chatter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And an overall view. I think it looks nice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's something about applying fresh paint that is very satisfying. I've been doing my best to work clean, avoiding any epoxy drips and being careful to sand evenly, and now it's nice to see all that attention to detail pay off with a nice paint job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the things I've been working on between other jobs is creating a tiller. Rather than reinvent the wheel, I decided to use an existing pattern created by Dale Simonson. You can see the details of the layout here: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dale_simonson/8487400597/" target="_blank">Dale Simonson's tiller pattern</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I drew out the pattern on a piece of scrap plywood, and glued down blocks that I could clamp to. Then it was just a matter of cutting the strips and planing them down to about 5/16" thickness. The thickest part of this lamination took just over 6 strips, and not all of the strips needed to be full length, since the profile of the tiller is not constant. I used walnut and a contrasting strip of maple the second one down from the top.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before gluing I put packing tape down on the form so the glue wouldn't stick. Glueup was then straightforward, using regular wood glue. The curves are gentle and easy to achieve.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I then glued up a smaller blank for the hiking stick. I put packing tape on the tiller and laminated the hiking stick right on top, so that the curves match.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then it was a matter of removing any wood that didn't look like a tiller. The profile changes from square at the end that inserts into the rudder head, to roughly round at the hand end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used my Shinto rasp, a spokeshave, and sandpaper to shape this part. I think it feels best when there is a little increase in diameter towards the end, like a pitchfork handle. In this photo from above you can see that curve a bit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the skegs installed, I was looking forward to starting the hull paint job. But as I viewed the bare hull my eye kept returning to the pointy end. I thought about that one layer of fiberglass cloth and thought about the potential abrasion from all the beaches I expect to pull up on. I knew I would feel better about the situation if I had a little more protection in place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I decided to delay the hull painting and put a couple layers of dynel cloth on the pointy part. Dynel is an abrasion-resistant cloth, and I have applied it to the front edges of the rudder and centerboard also.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's the bottom layer wetted out with epoxy. It takes more than the fiberglass cloth does, and seems to swell up a little as it absorbs the epoxy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With one thing and another, I've been working on finishing these skegs for far longer than I thought it would take. In the previous post I covered how I shaped the skegs from two layers of 3/4" plywood. The next step was to sheath them with fiberglass cloth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That worked pretty well, though the dowel was a bit of trouble to break loose. I could have just put packing tape over the dowel and skipped the release fabric, but I wanted to try out the fabric.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After I got all the fiberglass applied, I had multiple sessions of applying fairing compound, sanding it smooth, and iterating on the low spots. While I had the fairing mix made, I took the opportunity to do a little more work on the rudder and centerboard, which I had set aside short of completion some time ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn't find a specific measurement for how wide to space the skegs, so I guessed at a spacing that looked right to me. I wanted to leave enough space next to the centerboard slot to allow for the fillet, the tape to adhere the centerboard slot gasket, and room for the gasket to flex.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I finished off the fillets by sanding them a bit with a small dowel wrapped in sandpaper. It didn't take long and they smoothed out very nicely. These are now some of the nicest fillets no one will ever see...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the skegs rough cut and laminated, the next step was to bring them down to final dimension. Keeping the curves fair and the right shape to fit the hull, and keeping both skegs identical was a daunting prospect. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, I realized that I could use the pattern I cut to trace out the parts as a router template to trim the skegs to final shape. The first step was to screw the pattern to the rough-shaped part.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I then used a pattern bit with a bottom bearing in the router table to trim the stock to the final dimension. As you can see, the bit is not long enough to to the entire side, and there is also a little lip on the bottom between the bearing and the bit. This won't be a problem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next I routed the finger grips in the sides of the skegs with a bit that looks like this. This is 3/8" radius, and I cut about 1/4" deep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pretty much the last bits of boat to build and install are the two skegs on the bottom of the hull. These provide a stable base for the boat while on the trailer or beach and also are handy handholds to right the boat if capsized.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I looked through my bits of wood laying around and didn't find any solid stock that was inspiring, so I decided to build these from standard ACX plywood. Two thicknesses of 3/4" ply is the right thickness, and as these will be completely fiberglassed I think they will hold up just fine. And if not, I can always replace them with something else.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Working with the sheet plywood means that I won't have to splice parts together, and it should be easier to build parts that are straight. Any voids I find I plan to fill with epoxy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first step in the process was a trip to the local newspaper, where I bought an end-roll of newsprint. I unrolled a length and layed out the pattern for the skeg based on dimensions in the plan addendum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A couple weeks ago my build progress got interrupted for a week as I traveled with my wife to the Sail Oklahoma 2014 small boat gathering. We had a great time meeting new people and looking at a wide variety of home-built boats - everything from skin-on-frame paddle craft to large multihull boats. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were classes on various subjects and talks by boat designers from across the globe - U.S., Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand. And the weather was poor enough at times with the remains of a hurricane wetting down the site that cramming into shelter and listening was a perfect use of the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was particularly pleased to meet and talk with John Welsford, the designer of the SCAMP sailboat. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's John teaching one of his classes - this one was on sharpening tools.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's Paul Breeding's "Forever Young", attending from Colorado. This is the SCAMP that got me inspired to build my boat when I saw it at the Lake Pepin Messabout 18 months ago, and Paul was nice enough to take me out in her:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And a John Fisher's Sweet Pea, also from Colorado. We had a nice sail on her. She's a much bigger boat than the Scamp, and has been on the TX200:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Those duckers have a lot of fun - here's a shot of them out on the course rounding the first buoy in their class race. Of course the buoy is - an inflatable duck!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When it was completely upside down I placed a couple sawhorses under the seats after measuring to ensure they were tall enough to keep the cabin roof off the floor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These straps quick release rather than gradually lowering, so we worked this by me supporting the boat, my wife releasing the strap, then I would lower the boat a bit and she would tighten the strap again to support it. It took a couple iterations, switching from one end of the boat to the other, and then we were securely on the saw horses. About a half hour process overall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But before doing that, I put on this trim piece on the bow. The plans call for the bow transom to be completely flat, but when I installed the deck I noted that I had a bit of extra length, and so left it in place. I now cut this piece to finish off the bow. No steam bending or anything here, it's just cut to shape. It has beveled edges top and bottom and fits in nicely. There will be a shadow under this and I think it will look better than a completely flat front.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For rubrails I elected to use some clear fir I had on hand in 14' lengths, old floorboards. They were pretty dirty to I cleaned most of that off with a sander, then ran them through the surface planer, and cut them to width with a circular saw. The sheer curves horizontally, vertically, and twists, so I had to soften these up with the steamer. It took a lot of steaming, and even then this wood didn't bend too well, but it was enough. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and put a piece on the inside, too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And also took this opportunity to put fiberglass tape along the deck/cabin side joint. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I first laminated them in place on the seat back, but not glued to the seat back. After the epoxy cured I then took the lamination off and cleaned up the bottom edge, tapered it toward the rear end, and rounded over the bottom corner with the router. Then I took the result and glued it in place on the seat back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I plan to install a cap on top of this about 1/2" thick. That will cover the exposed edge of the plywood and allow me to put a nice generous round over on to make it more comfortable to have an arm resting against. I may also add a wider section if I find that I like to sit up on the rail. I didn't know where the best place for that would be at this point, so that's a future item.</span></div>
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