Steering Healm

Ah yes. the steering gear bought for short monies on good old e-bay

Here we have some fine joinery
Sitting tall and proud the new console will allow me to control the boat and see over the bow at the same time. Such luxury!
Again
This seat will be notched to accept the console and will give me more space to move about behind it.

Ocean Bound

Such a proud and beautiful bow!

A bit messy from drilling holes for the seats.

Securely fastend to the trailer.

Sexy motor mmmm...

Aug 25th 2009 Boat leaves garage!

Well here we see her form the second floor porch. The trailer looked a lot bigger when there was no boat on it!
Oh! so gracefull.

It will look even better with that outboard on the back.

This picture looks a lot nicer the right way up.

Overhaulin'

Yeah the green was making me feel ill, so we have a new look.

HOly CrAp! - Progress

Sometime in the last couple weeks I actually did some work. 

The inside of the boat is all painted like.

I cut off the excess on the top of the stem, so pretty now. (holy shit. cornhole!)

What do you think of the interior paint color? Soothing right? WEST MARINE calls it Sand.

Here is the forward thwart, after careful snooping at the Depot I actually found some agreeable pieces of wood.

It just looks so...

Cleats

I get tired of sanding fast, so, a couple of nights ago I decided to make some oak cleats for the ship. I stole the design from a copy of woodenBoat that had dimentions for cleats ranging from about 5 to 10 in. The plans call for 6" bronze cleats, I want wood so I beefed them up. I thought 8" would look chunky and 7" too small so I customized to 7.5" What ya think?

I have to say they look pretty sweet.

After I cut blocks to the hight and length of the cleat, they looked mighty short. But, once shaped, they look mighty sexy!

Looking like a real boat

OOh yeah. Breasthook installed. I just want to motor boat that ish!

FRAMES - Instaled!

Quarter Knees - Instaled.

Transom - Notched out for the Outboard. Word!

She is looking so sweet. Look for some painting in the near future. I can smell the sweet fish guts already.

6/18/09 - On Tuesday I spent some time on sanding and filling minor imperfections in the hull. That is some tedious work. I took all of the frames and the seat rails out of the boat. I jacked up and set up my router table (ghetto), and put a chamfer around all of the frames. I marked out the location for the seat rails and left square edges on that part so it receives the seat rail firmly. This should add a nice bit of detail to the inside of the ship.






Also, while I had everything out of the boat I put the finishing touches on the breasthook and the quarter knees. Shout out to Marky Heron for letting me use his shop to clean up my gnarly band sawyering.

regroup

6/7/09 - I spent almost the whole day working on the boat. I finnaly fitted and attached all of the frames (dry), and cut the seat rails. For the rails I used this wonky 2x6 that I found at home cheap-o and used its warp to my advantage. I ripped it in half and beveld it to recive the seats (or thwarts if you will). After a bit of bending and shoving, I got it all to go together pretty well. How hot dose she look now?

So last weekend I really got back into it and kicked a bit off ass in the shop. Saturday; did some cleanup and made this sweet little bugger. It was real easy to put together and now the tablesaw glides around like its on a buttered floor. So Sweet.

Whats the hold up?

So, I have been off my game for the past 6 weeks or so 'cause I tried to cut my thumb off. Check out the grusome awesomeness. We see it at 2 days after injury (the really red pic) and again at 1 month.

A few more old photos

Here is the aft bottom panel ready for a dry fit.

The first layer of the bottom being attached to the sides

When I started installing the bottom's second layer i got a bit lazy and put a pattern cutter in the biggest router that i had (3hp) and just went crazy.  I made a lot of dust but it only took a couple of min. and worked perfectly. 

Here we are sticking the two layers of bottom together. 

Theres a sexy hind quarter, with the bottom on it really starts to look like a boat.

Sweet.

History

Here are some older pics from before the blog began.  I have been working on this since January of 2008 so there is kinda a lot but I will pack it in there. 

Here we have a decent side shot of the building jig.

Here is the stem, it was a lot of fun to make with hand tools.  A good learning experience. 
Here is a pair of bitchin' saw horses that i made out of a busted ass shelf that i found in the garage. 

Sexy look at the Chine as it sweeps gracefully around the moulds. 
This is my clamping fixture made of garden stones.  Laminating the transom.

The roll over

So we begin in the middle. The roll over party was a great success. The Boat didn't get dropped(main concern) and evreyone ate drank and was merry. It would have been nice if it had not snowed, boo, but nevertheless the ship is rightside up and work may begin on the inside